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.

Unfortunately, in the bankruptcy world, there are some very unseemly practices. There are some companies who disguise themselves as law firms only to be referral agencies in reality. They take your phone call and have non-lawyers sign you up, and then refer you back to a Minnesota bankruptcy attorney. If you want crappy service, you should definitely do this.

When a person neglects or refuses to pay their tax debt, the IRS can obtain a lien on the tax payer’s property. The federal tax lien attaches to every interest in property that the taxpayer has or acquires during the time of the lien in effect. The IRS obtains the perfected security interest in the person’s property by filing a Notice of Federal Tax Lien with the county recorder’s office. The lien remains in effect until it is satisfied or becomes unenforceable by the lapse of time.