Joyce is on board! She's actually talking about manipulating her flight schedule in Louisville to do the interview. Stick her on the list with Sa Chen and Roberto Plano who think this thing is cool
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It's amazing how much progress you made while I was gone-not unbelievable, since it's you, but amazing. I'm glad to hear about all your successes...perhaps Sasha will still come around? Are you sure that he checks his e-mail? Maybe there is some other problem? I hate to think that he is just dissing the whole process, but I suppose that he does have reason to be wary of "journalists" which is where you probably fit in at this point. Maybe the documentary itself turned him off- with all the Joyce-ness it seems like they were going for a "Joyce against the rest" angle...but I don't have complete information
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I don't have complete information either, and I am constantly struck by the fact that people often assume that if I'm slow getting something done there's some great meaning in it, when really it's probably that I just put it in the wrong stack. He's got so much that is going on -- 22 concerts in two months, moving to Israel, new baby "almost" here, him being able to do zippo to help, teacher just passed away, etc., etc. I would not be shocked to discover he's just let some things fall by the wayside. Especially if he's not really happy with American journalists. I was struck by what you said about that, because there was a lot of negative stuff said. I thought he'd given a nice interview to the Star-Telegram, but when I go back and look at the paper, it's not nice at all. Hardly any quotes, and all of those are jokes. Nothing serious at all. This could be a case of him being totally unwilling to reveal himself at all, too
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Well, I'm glad that you are still thinking "Can-do" about Sasha. I have a feeling that he's going to come through. He comes across as very...not so much shy, as internal, if that makes sense. Added to that, I can picture him as the sort of man who is SO intent on his music that other stuff slips off his radar. *g* maybe you could write him a song to convince him to come? *has ex-boyfriends standing by
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Here's the answer to that question quickly (got to go to Evansville and get myself a suitable black dress for all these concerts!).
Basic question: in Kentucky you are ALWAYS allowed to use the federal exemptions. So far, the only time I would be wary of using them would be where large (more than $1 million) in IRAs are at issue (read: will never happen) and that will only be after the law changes. I can't imagine a world in which you wouldn't want to use them.
Why, oh why do people engage in bankruptcy planning without talking to lawyers? Bankruptcy is so counterintuitive, they only end up screwed. These people really messed up, but we could get them out of it. To start: your basic analysis so far is correct. Now, if people transfer things within a month of coming to see me, I usually tell them to get it back and a trustee probably will not say anything. With a house and a transfer this old, however, they could be screwed. Reasons: first, the trustee will not buy an "oh they just messed up but within a few days they got
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Yeah, the 13 was the solution that I thought of. Their income is so tiny, however, that I don't know if they could fund a plan. I was thinking that, given they are WAY below the state median income, they may want to hold out for a year and then file the 7, but I think that they are already under a lot of pressure from their creditors/being sued.
The problem with the "gift" is that their son is a minor.If they pay on a 13 for a while, could they convert to a 7 later, or would the "look back" count from when they first filed?
Ah, well. This can be considered tomorrow. In the mean time, have fun shopping. I would love to be off shopping with you! There are not a lot of pretty black dresses out this year though :/ Let us know what you find!
That's a great plan about Kobrin *g* Your usher friend was a lucky find!
You know, I gave this issue some more thought as I drove over to Evansville, and the more I think about it, your approach of potentially exempting the equity strikes me as possibly having merit . . . let me run it past Frank or my other friend Harry. I tend to be loosy-goosey about some of these areas of law (I figure out "why it doesn't matter" as opposed to knowing the rule all too often), but he always knows them right on point. I'm thinking about rules related to preferential transfers, where you can exempt them. I doubt it would work, but I don't want to completely mark it off the list.
Re: Buy, what great advice --morsefanOctober 27 2005, 17:51:49 UTC
I did a long rant on kirixchi's journal about the perfidies of women's clothing today. I wanted something sort of flowing, and I'd finally decided mini-skirt and way above the knee, which is my normal approach, was not what I wanted now. Plus, it couldn't be "too" fancy, because I wanted to be able to wear it even to less formal venues
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Re: Buy, what great advice --morsefanOctober 27 2005, 21:32:41 UTC
I apologize profusely about my baseball situation; I have totally missed the season. I blame the Cliburn. What it took to be able to go and what it took to survive after I got back was too much to allow me to do much of anything else all summer and fall. I was glad last year I got to see Greg Maddux's 300th win and then I saw (last year?) Greg pitch against Tommy. If I remember, Tommy got his ass kicked, but that wasn't his fault. When I was a little younger, Tommy Glavine was my great hero. I lost some of my interest in baseball when he left the Braves. They promised the fans they would never let him leave. He had always been important to me, but I never realized how much. I do need to follow next season, though. I'm afraid I'll miss his and Greg's "last games," and I would hate myself forever. Glavine in particular was to me everything that was good. I remember watching taped Braves games to prepare for law school exams: ordinary people could do extraordinary things and anything was possible
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Oh, and as to the "losing the equity" stuff. Here's the deal. This is a rule I really, really, really don't know because it has never come up in anything I've ever done. But what I do know is that if you sell your house and have $21,000 in a bank account (I would segregate it, but I'm not sure that's absolutely necessary -- but you would end up litigating it, so that's what a person should do), for a certain period of time after the sale, the money is still exempt. I "know" this is true under the state exemptions. I "think" it is true under federal exemptions. After some period of time, and I don't know how long, it stops being exempt as equity in a residence. If you just "give" all your equity away, you don't have it as you would in a sale, so you don't have the benefit of that rule, and I thought maybe the rule would be 6 months (worth checking) which would protect the equity if it came back. I doubt it, but that's what I was speculating in my mind when I wrote what I did.
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Basic question: in Kentucky you are ALWAYS allowed to use the federal exemptions. So far, the only time I would be wary of using them would be where large (more than $1 million) in IRAs are at issue (read: will never happen) and that will only be after the law changes. I can't imagine a world in which you wouldn't want to use them.
Why, oh why do people engage in bankruptcy planning without talking to lawyers? Bankruptcy is so counterintuitive, they only end up screwed. These people really messed up, but we could get them out of it. To start: your basic analysis so far is correct. Now, if people transfer things within a month of coming to see me, I usually tell them to get it back and a trustee probably will not say anything. With a house and a transfer this old, however, they could be screwed. Reasons: first, the trustee will not buy an "oh they just messed up but within a few days they got ( ... )
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The problem with the "gift" is that their son is a minor.If they pay on a 13 for a while, could they convert to a 7 later, or would the "look back" count from when they first filed?
Ah, well. This can be considered tomorrow. In the mean time, have fun shopping. I would love to be off shopping with you! There are not a lot of pretty black dresses out this year though :/ Let us know what you find!
That's a great plan about Kobrin *g* Your usher friend was a lucky find!
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BTW, what did you finally pick out for a suitable black dress?
And is there a photo of you in it with VC? (Wouldn't that make a great cover or author shot for the book? (-: )
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Hmmmm. (-: (wink wink, nudge nudge, thank you very much!) Goes well with
"... mini-skirt and way above the knee, which is my normal approach ..."
Wow.
Sounds like you made a VERY classy final choice, though.
"I got assigned to be Tom Browning's lunch partner -- is that cool or what?"
Majorly. Would love to hear more about that.
BTW, what is wrong with baseball this year? First the Angels wimp out, and now the Astros -- both after playing extremely well?
"BTW -- are you 'in'?"
Yes.
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I love using this icon for comments like this (LOL!). He would laugh himself silly.
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That's of course a given. But you must also admit, you did offer a small description (wink!).
"I love using this icon for comments like this (LOL!). He would laugh himself silly."
As am I.
I'm answering by e-mail so will log onto the site and see which face you are showing me now. (-:
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