Category: Financial Tips

Step #1: Determine Your Average Monthly Income Step #2: Know Your Expenses Step #3: Create a Balanced Budget Step #4: Review Your Budget Regularly Step #5: Use a Technology to Help You Step #5: Use Technology to Help You By this time you’ve completed the “meat and potatoes” steps (Steps 1 through 3) that allow … Read more

Step #1: Determine Your Average Monthly Income Step #2: Know Your Expenses Step #3: Create a Balanced Budget Step #4: Review Your Budget Regularly Step #5: Use a Technology to Help You Step #4: Review Your Budget Regularly The first three steps in this series are really the “meat and potatoes” of creating a budget … Read more

Step #3: Create a Balanced Budget So far we have discussed the importance of getting accurate information for determining your income by reviewing at least the last several months of paystubs and we have discussed the incredibly important task of getting a “financially honest” expense report. The next step in putting together a successful budget after filing … Read more

In our last blog post we talked about the first step of budgeting after filing for bankruptcy, which was knowing your income. I mentioned in that post that I believed determining your income was the easiest of the five steps in building your budget. Unfortunately, I think the second step, knowing your expenses, is the … Read more

As a bankruptcy law firm we have filed thousands of bankruptcies for people all across North Carolina. During our years of experience we have seen almost every scenario you can imagine that would lead to someone having to file bankruptcy – whether it is a sudden illness with unexpected medial expenses, loss of a job, … Read more