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Few things in life can be as devastating, as embarrassing and as damaging as bankruptcy. This can happen to both individuals and businesses that have reached a point where they are no longer able to service their debt and where there is little prospect for their ability to recover enough. With insolvency all possessions and assets are forfeited. If it is a business, the doors will be closed and the employees will be fired. With these dire consequences in mind, it makes sense to pursue every possible avenue before going the route of insolvency.

Bankruptcy is an option available to individual’s who can no longer pay their debts. More information on that subject is covered in the following paragraphs. Debt Consolidation is another option available. This type of service involves all of the individual’s unsecured debts being combined and one payment per month being made to a credit counseling agency who then distributes them to the individual’s creditors. Monthly payments are lowered and some penalties forgiven when debt’s are consolidated.

Consumer proposal is an appropriate way of debt consolidation in extreme cases. Such cases include having very huge amounts of unsecured debts, being able to only pay a certain amount of the balances and when looking for an alternative bankruptcy. This process is equal to balance management plans where by an individual may pay a portion of the balances while taking all the time required.

A consumer proposal is a substitute for bankruptcy obtainable by Canadian citizens. For those who life in the U. S. There is a Chapter 13 Wage Earner Plan that can be filed. This is an agreement with your creditors to pay all or part of your debt.