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Credit Problems? How to legally reduce or eliminate all your debts.
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A CONSUMER PROPOSAL
Sets You Free of Debt Problems
When you file a consumer proposal you receive immediate protection from your creditors.
A consumer proposal is simply a formal legally binding offer to your creditors to accept monthly payments of a portion of your debts as full settlement.
A consumer proposal is a legal agreement that working through a Licensed Insolvency Trustee.
You know your credit rating and credit score are shot. Credit counselling takes far too long. Consolidation loans only add to your debt.
Your credit cards are maxed and you see other warning signs and maybe have judgments. A Consumer Proposal may be the right answer for you.
WHAT IS A CONSUMER PROPOSAL?
A proposal is simply an agreement between a person and his creditors whereby the person pays only a portion of his debts (say one-half), thus avoiding bankruptcy.
A proposal is made to the creditors through a Trustee in Bankruptcy. It does not mean you are bankrupt.
If the creditors vote in favour of the proposal, and the court approves it, then the proposal is a binding contract which all creditors must accept even the creditors who did not vote for the proposal.
Proposals are a better deal for the creditors than bankruptcy and in the vast majority of cases are accepted!
Consider a Consumer Proposal Before Undertaking Credit Counselling Repayment Programs
A Consumer Proposal is a means to negotiate with your creditors for the reduction of you debts and/or extension of time for payment of their debts. The payment schedule that is created in consultation with a your advisor is based on your income, living expenses and family creditors. It prevents your creditors from taking legal actions to seize assets or garnishee wages.
How Proposals are Filed
Under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, a trustee or an administrator files a Proposal or an arrangement between you and your creditors to have you
Pay off only a portion of your debts
Extend the time you have to pay off the debt
Propose some combination of both.
To be acceptable, your creditors must be better off under a Proposal than if you go bankrupt.
CONSUMER PROPOSAL
VERSUS
BANKRUPTCY
- Consumer Proposals are better than Bankruptcy:
- When the debtor desires a quick resolution and is prepared to pay a premium to achieve that result
- When a discharge is likely to be contentious or a substantial condition is likely to be imposed
- When the debtor wishes to avoid bankruptcy altogether
- When the debtor wishes to continue in business and will be prevented from so doing if obliged to disclose that he is a bankrupt when dealing with third parties
- When professional accreditation may be lost or put at risk by a bankruptcy
- When a bankruptcy will result in a secured creditor acting on its security
- When the debtor wishes to retain some key asset (e.g. a home, heirloom, secret process or impending inheritance)
- When the debtor has previously been bankrupt.
Consumer Proposals
Can Slash Your Debt
