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Your Legal Helpers Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer can use Missouri law to protect your possessions.

Interesting article on the resurgence of bankruptcy in Missouri, dated Sep. 06, 2006

Your Legal Helpers Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer can use Missouri state law to protect the equity in your personal property. Your Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer can use the homestead exemption to protect up to $15,000 of the equity in your house. A Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer may also exempt proceeds if you sell your home within one year prior to the bankruptcy.

Your Legal Helpers Kansas City bankruptcy lawyer practices exclusively in consumer financial cases.

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Your Missouri bankruptcy lawyer can use the motor vehicle exemption to protect $1,000 in value of any one motor vehicle listed in your bankruptcy. Additionally, if you file the bankruptcy with your spouse your Missouri bankruptcy lawyer can use both vehicle exemptions to protect up to $2,000 in vehicle equity as long as both you and your spouse are on the title to the car.

Your Missouri bankruptcy lawyer can use the clothing, textbooks, bible, and family pictures exemption to protect $1,000 of your interest in various personal items such as your clothing and personal heirlooms.

Other Missouri exemptions can save you thousands of dollars

Your Legal Helpers Missouri bankruptcy lawyer will be a seasoned professional who practices exclusively in personal and family financial cases, and will use every available bankruptcy exemption to protect your property.

Under the Life Insurance Proceeds bankruptcy exemption we can protect a payment under a life insurance contract that insured the life of an individual of whom you were a dependent to the extent reasonably necessary for your support or the support of your dependent(s). Legal Helpers may also be able to exempt alimony, support, or separate maintenance, to the extent reasonably necessary to help support you during your bankruptcy.

Legal Helpers can prevent creditors from touching the proceeds of your hard-earned retirement plan. We can exempt anything from stock bonuses, pensions, profit sharing plans and annuities as long as we determine that your savings are in a qualified retirement plan.

With the Tools of the Trade, Professional Books exemption, we can protect up to $2,000 of the tools you use in your profession. For example, shears, scissors and combs are the tools of a hairdresser, as are wrenches and hammers for a mechanic and carpenter.

Last, but probably most important of the exemptions is the Wildcard Exemption. Using the Wildcard Exemption in your case, Legal Helpers can protect up to $400 of any type of personal property we can protect under the above exemptions.

Legal Helpers' Missouri attorneys, as highly experienced and knowledgeable attorneys in all aspects of Missouri law, offer free consultations, low flat fees and flexible payment plans. Legal Helpers is the largest and most sophisticated debt consolidation law firm in America. We have helped over 40,000 clients discharge over $500,000,000 in debt. By combining a state of the art computer network system with the knowledge of experience, we pass a considerable cost savings on to you.