06.06.2013 | by Ken Steidl
Can a person do anything about student loans, especially when they are co-signed by parents?
I met with a potential client who had recently completed seven years of college, which included three years of graduate school. He graduated with more than $300,000.00 worth of student loan debt and was having great difficulty finding a decent job. More than six months had elapsed since he had graduated, and so the student loan creditors were demanding huge monthly payments on this enormous debt. He came to see me to discuss his options. The first option we discussed was Chapter 7, which allows a person to discharge student loans if they can prove that the repayment of these loans would be a substantial hardship.
06.03.2013 | by Lauren Lamb
Legal battle did not fix the reassessment system
Eight years ago, Lorrie Cranor could have never imagined that the lawsuit she, along with several other homeowners, filed would end the way it did. Cranor was one of the homeowners that filed the suit that prompted the 2012 Allegheny County real estate reassessment.
05.22.2013 | by Lauren Lamb
Pittsburgh slow to add jobs in past year
If you think the job market is tough in Western Pennsylvania, you are right. Apparently the economic recovery is taking a little longer to reach Pittsburgh than most of the country.