ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this episode, we hear from bankruptcy attorney Karina Lucid of Lucid Law (https://www.karinalucidlaw.com). We talk about the importance of your credit score and the perceived stigma around filing bankruptcy and how not taking action can tank your credit score completely. We find out about one of the biggest barriers to repairing your credit score and the (not-so) secret formula to fixing it for good. Karina also shares with us the one thing people miss frequently when they are trying to repair their credit score. As well as what she strongly urges her clients not to do when cleaning up their credit score. Below is an short excerpt of our conversation.
Catalina [00:09:01] And if I could add to that, the word I was also thinking was stigma. But it's also makes me think about our value system, you know, and it's not so much about valuing all of the person that has more money. But really, if you think about it, it's about how we value who has more control of the money because it's one thing to have the money. But if you're in bankruptcy, you know, you have it in some way, but you just don't control it because things are just out of have spun out of control, right?
Karina [00:09:32] Mm hmm. And actually, you know, that's a great point because when you think of bankruptcy, I think most people, they think of a Chapter 7, which is a complete liquidation of all of your debt. And although Chapter 13 is very popular and very commonly used, people don't usually think of bankruptcy that way. And that's another thing. The propaganda, you know, sort of is out there saying, Oh, well, it's a get out of jail free card and there, you know, kind of getting off without paying their debt. And you know, you have this huge population of people that are in repayment plans through bankruptcy. And that's what Chapter 13 does. Just like Chapter 11 does for corporations, All right, you know, people with very high levels of income and liabilities. Chapter 13 is what we call a “wage-earners” bankruptcy. You know, it's a person who has a decent wage, but just has gotten to the point where they have more debt than they can handle on the terms that are required under those agreements. You don't plan to default on your credit cards and you kind of use them oftentimes as revolving credit, right? But then before you know it, that twenty nine percent interest is all you're paying when you're doing your minimum monthly payment. And you know, people don't go into the relationship with the credit card company anticipating that situation. The Chapter 13 gives them the breathing space. It stops interest and they just make payments on the credit card so over time they just pay it off and they get there in three to five years. That's not an unrespectable thing to do....
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