A small business owner would claim bankruptcy for a few reasons. The biggest reason would be to eliminate most or all debts for which a business owner is personally liable for.
No, a creditor is required to file a claim if seeking payment, otherwise that claim is considered waived. So in this case. if there was no claim, then it was waived and the debt discharged. But even if it was filed, it would have been discharged in the business BK.
You can still ship a product to a company after they claim bankruptcy. They still have funds to continue running the business if they are doing a reorganization. If the company does not exist anymore, it would not be wise to ship to them.
Under the new bankruptcy rules, this would be hard to impossible to do.
They would legitimately be entitled to be a party to the settlement but would need to apply to the bankruptcy administrator for consideration in this instance.
I suppose you could, but even if you did manage to get the financing together to open another business, any profits from it would be subject to seizure by the court and the bankruptcy trustee to pay off the bankruptcy judgement. There is no bankruptcy "judgment." If the bankruptcy is over and you have your discharge, you can open a business, and any money you make is yours. Providing the first bankuptcy is discharged.
The options available to a small business owner would vary in each situation. With a lawyer the business owner can go through each of the options and choose the best one for their situation.
== == YES. All of your property is considered in a bankruptcy. Your creditors have every right to get at ALL of your property including your business assets. I would be very surprised if the court didn't order the sale of the business to satisfy the creditors demands.
Is VA Disability income exempt from bankruptcy income claim?
No, it would be a nonpriority, unsecured debt.
A firm may go out of business due to many reasons such as retiring, forced to sell by illness, or bankruptcy. But, usually when we hear that a "a firm goes out of business.." our thoughts would immediately think bankruptcy or failing.
Penalties, which tickets are, are NOT dischargeable.
You might be able to file bankruptcy individually, but the bankruptcy trustee will scrutinize joint assets and income to determine whether they must be included in your individual filing. Therefor, there may be more reasons that the bankruptcy trustee would determine as cause to dismiss your bankruptcy claim. Note that if rejection of your bankruptcy claim is upheld by the bankruptcy court, actually your have only lost your time and expenses to file that particular bankruptcy claim. An excellent book for detailed perspective on filing chapter 7 or chapter 13 bankruptcy: "The New Bankruptcy, will it work for You?" 3rd edition (published in 2009 by Nolo), by Stephen Elias. I found this book in the Colorado Springs public library under 346.078 E42N (Dewey decimal).