When you hire a bankruptcy attorney, they are supposed to protect your interests and assets not take a lien against your assets to see that the lawyer gets paid their fees. I witnessed this happen recently and it is shocking a lawyer would do this. It is a very unseemly practice that prioritizes lawyers being paid over clients getting relief.
How Can I Avoid a Lien in Minnesota?
Did you know, that if you gave a bankruptcy attorney a lien against your property pre-bankruptcy filing that the Bankruptcy Code gives you the power to avoid this lien in household goods? Bankruptcy Code Section 522(f)(1)(b)(i) gives the debtor the power to avoid any such non-possessory and non-purchase money security interest in debtor’s property.
What Rights Does a Bankruptcy Lawyer in MN Have to the Lien?
If you have signed off on such an unseemly arrangement, you can avoid the lien on your household goods after filing chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcy. Where does this leave the bankruptcy lawyer? High and dry and not getting paid is where it leaves the lawyer. Once you have filed the bankruptcy, the lawyer is barred from collecting on the debt owed to lawyer and lawyer’s purported lien on the household items is extinguished.
At LifeBack Law, we would never take a lien against our own client’s property just to be paid our fees. Instead, we are kind, helpful, professional, and always deliver exceptional customer service. You cannot have these values and do something as slimy as demand a lien against your clients own assets to be assured you get paid. That is not how LifeBack Law Firm behaves.
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