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Nonprofit offers free legal advice on low-income bankruptcy filing

When the collection agencies come calling, but paying back debt isn’t possible, some immediately turn to one option: filing for bankruptcy.

But bankruptcy might not be smart for many low- or no-income individuals because they could have few assets to sell off in a Chapter 7 liquidation, meaning....

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