Author: David W. Cain

On December 16, 2014, Congress finally passed a bill that extends the Mortgage Debt Relief Act through 2014.  This is a great law for home owners and provides a tax exemption for debt relief...

The Department of Justice will now instruct all of its employees to strive to extend equal protection rights to legally recognized same sex couples.  The new policy change was announced by Attorney General Eric...

Since Act 48, banks have uniformly chosen judicial foreclosure as the method to enforce their lien rights in mortgage delinquency situations.  While judicial foreclosures have the benefit of judicial review (meaning a judge will...

With constantly fluctuating legislation and an unpredictable economy, managing rental property or counseling those who do can often seem like more risk than it’s worth.  Having a firm grasp on the essential legal and...

The federal government shutdown has left thousands of people furloughed. Even if the pay is later restored, this leaves many families with the immediate burden of having to juggle monthly expenses with a freeze...

As Congress announced the federal shutdown and hundreds of thousands of federal employees were furloughed pending a spending bill compromise in Congress, the Bankruptcy Court of the District of Hawaii made the following announcement....