Blog Posts in 2010
Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
A recent auto accident in Queens involving a minivan crushed between a bus and tractor trailer reminds our Queens bankruptcy lawyers how people’s financial situation can change instantaneously. ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
A recent auto accident in Queens involving a minivan crushed between a bus and tractor trailer reminds our Queens bankruptcy lawyers how people’s financial situation can change instantaneously. ...
Continue reading "Queens accident victims escape injury...and bankruptcy" »
Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
As a parting gift to the residents of New York State who are filing bankruptcy , the outgoing Governor of New York State, signed into law an increase in two important bankruptcy exemptions which are ...
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Posted on Dec 9, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
A new law will go a long way toward ensuring that bankruptcy or debt collection do not strip people of all they own. Read the entire article here: http://nyti.ms/i9Dux9
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
When determining eligibility for Social Security Disability (SSD) Benefits, the Social Security Administration (SSA) doesn’t concern itself with where you live on Long Island—whether ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
When determining eligibility for Social Security Disability (SSD) Benefits, the Social Security Administration (SSA) doesn’t concern itself with where you live on Long Island—whether ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Our disability claim lawyers help people all across Long Island—Queens, Nassau, and even Hauppague, Suffolk County and beyond—successfully file Social Security Disability (SSD) claims. ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Our disability claim lawyers help people all across Long Island—Queens, Nassau, and even Hauppague, Suffolk County and beyond—successfully file Social Security Disability (SSD) claims. ...
Continue reading "Let our Long Island attorneys secure your Social Security Disability Benefits" »
Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
For 22 years, my client Albert was an office worker. He had many office skills and rose to the level of being an office manager. He was in charge of running an office and had 8 people who looked up to ...
Continue reading "Are you like Albert who needed to collect Social Security Disability?" »
Posted on Oct 6, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Are you… A single mother with children and unable to work? Are these children totally reliant on you for their upbringing and sustenance? Do you want to support them and provide all types of ...
Continue reading "Single Mothers & Social Security Disability" »
Posted on Sep 19, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"THE DECISION OF whether to file for bankruptcy protection is not an easy one. Among the numerous concerns, one that is typically front and center is the worry that your credit rating will be so ...
Continue reading "Declaring Bankruptcy Can Improve Your Credit Score" »
Posted on Sep 17, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to ...
Continue reading "The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden" »
Posted on Sep 4, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"From Lehman to Pacific Gas and Electric, the mighty have fallen, taking down billions and billions with them." CNN lists the 10 top bankruptcies with assets and the date. Very interesting ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"What happens to many athletes and their money is indeed hard to believe. In this month alone Saints alltime leading rusher Deuce McAllister filed for bankruptcy protection for the Jackson, ...
Continue reading "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke [CNN]" »
Posted on Sep 1, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"In states such as California, Arizona and Nevada, where housing prices soared and then collapsed during the past decade, consumer bankruptcy filings rose roughly twice as much as the national ...
Continue reading "Wave of Bankruptcies Hits States Hammered by Housing Bust" »
Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"In April, the Treasury said it would stop issuing paper checks in 2013 and make all payments electronically. More than two million people who receive Social Security checks in the mail would ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"If you have a devastating disease, that's an awfully long wait," said Social Security Administrator Michael Astrue. "We're focusing on making a decision for people who are ...
Continue reading "Social Security to Expand Fast-Track System" »
Posted on Aug 28, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Personal bankruptcies numbered 137,698 last month, a 9% increase from the June total, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, an organization of lawyers and other professionals. The data were ...
Continue reading "Personal Bankruptcies Rise, Reversing Trend" »
Posted on Aug 23, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"And more people are filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy , which liquidates assets to pay off some debts and absolves the filers of others. That is significant because a 2005 overhaul of federal ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
"In the first quarter of 2010, the rate of personal bankruptcy filings in a dozen states increased by double-digit percentages over 2009's monthly averages. "What is surprising is that ...
Continue reading "Personal Bankruptcies Hit a High and May Keep Rising" »
Posted on Jul 20, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Social Security Disability (SSD) is an Insurance Program offered by the Federal Government which allows for payments to individuals of an amount of social security they would collect at age 66. The ...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
A will is almost always a written document which becomes effective on the death of the testator, the person who writes the will. A will is generally drawn up on Long Island by a Long Island Wills ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2010 By Blutter & Blutter
Many Nassau and Suffolk County residents go about their days without a will in place. Even more Long Islanders carry on without a "living will." Also referred to as an advance directive, ...
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