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Our website's purpose is to provide Alberta bankruptcy information and other options that will help people in Calgary, Edmonton, Lloydminster, Okotoks, Red Deer, Sherwood Park and other areas of Alberta get a fresh financial start, and to provide resources to assist in building a secure financial future!
Our Alberta bankruptcy trustees are available to
assist you in identifying your options and forming a plan to get you
a fresh financial start. In
many cases there are options other than bankruptcy, including:
Proposals,
Credit counselling,
Third party settlements with creditors,
and refinancing.
Our Alberta bankruptcy trustees can help you manage stressful financial situations including:
Wage garnishment;
Creditor’s threatening legal action;
Responding to collection agencies;
Income tax owing;
Debt repayment strategies;
Proposals to creditors;
Personal bankruptcy.
You'll find our
Alberta bankruptcy trustees knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. We'll start by scheduling
a meeting with you to discuss the solutions best suited to your situation. This meeting is free, and it's confidential.
it’s your first step towards taking control of your financial future!
The cost of an Alberta bankruptcy
is set by the Government. Our trustees have payment terms available.
If an Alberta bankruptcy or an Alberta proposal is your best option for getting a fresh financial start you are allowed
to keep the following assets:
Food required by the debtor and his/her dependants during the next 12 months;
Necessary clothing of the debtor and his/her dependants up to a value of $4,000;
Household furniture and appliances up to a value of $4,000;
One motor vehicle not exceeding a value of $5,000.00;
Medical and dental aids required by the debtor and his/her dependants;
Where the debtor is a bona fide farmer and whose principal source of livelihood is farming 160 acres if the debtor's principal residence is located on that 160 acres and that the 160 acres is part of the debtor's farm;
The equity in the debtor's principal residence, including a mobile home, up to a value of $40,000.00;
If the debtor is a co-owner of the residence, the amount of the exemption is reduced to an amount that is proportionate to the debtor's ownership interest;
Personal property (i.e. tools, equipment, books) required by the debtor to earn income from the debtor's occupation up to a value of $10,000;
Where the debtor's primary income is from farming operations, personal property required by the debtor for the proper and efficient conduct of the debtor's farming operations for the next 12 months.
Effective July 7, 2008 exemptions are in effect for all registered retirement savings plans (RRSP's, RRIF's and DPSP's (Deferred Profit Sharing Plans).
Contributions made in the 12 months prior to the date of bankruptcy will be recovered (clawed back) for the benefit of the bankruptcy estate for RRSPs in provinces without RRSP exemption laws (BC, Alberta, Ontario, NB, and NS);
There will be no upper cap on the amount of RRSPs that can be protected;
There will be no need to set up the RRSPs in a locked in plan to make them eligible for exemption;
The court will have no jurisdiction to extend the one year claw back period period in an appropriate case.
Filing
an Alberta bankruptcy or an Alberta proposal will stop actions by creditors such as:
Collection Calls;
CRA,
income tax collections;
Garnishee
of your pay;
Creditors
seizing your assets.
Please
note that this is general information and does not replace the specific
details that need to be discussed in a meeting with one of our Alberta bankruptcy trustees. Some other issues may include being judgement proof, co-signers, the effect
on your spouse, separation between spouses, surplus income guidelines,
stay of proceedings and how it works in your situation, and income
tax consequences.
Most of the people who file an Alberta bankruptcy or an Alberta proposal are good, honest, hard-working people who file as a last resort after months or years struggling to pay the bills left over from some catastrophic event or set of circumstances. It can be because of a divorce, the loss of a job, a failed business venture, a serious illness, or some family emergency, or because the person honestly and mistakenly fell into debt at a young age before they knew better, and before they knew anything about budgeting or how to manage money.
Alberta's bankruptcy laws are designed to permit an honest but unfortunate debtor to obtain a discharge from his or her debts while treating creditors equally and fairly.
Last year 100,000 individuals in Canada filed for personal bankruptcy or filed a bankruptcy proposal.
When you are ready for a FREE, confidential consultation
please call one of our offices and set up a meeting.
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