Mark E. Hager
          Attorney and Counselor at Law, LC

           (813) 514-4788 - Hillsborough County
                (352) 666-5300 - Hernando County

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The Bankruptcy Process

Going through bankruptcy can be stressful.  Hager Law Firm will guide you through it as painlessly as possible.  Use the "Important Facts About Real Estate Law" link at the right to up-to-date information on the some of the most common issues.

Use the "Bankruptcy Intake" link to prepare yourself for your first consultation.  In addition you will find valuable information about the bankruptcy process on the "Bankruptcy Resource Page".

Use the "Mortgage Calculater" below to obtain monthly payment amounts for any given loan.  Just fill in the blanks and click on "Calculate". 

Debt Consolidation Calculator

When the typical debt-consolidation company advertises that they can "save you money," what they are most often referring to is simply a reduction in your total monthly debt payments -- not a savings in the cost of paying off your debt (interest charges). Sure, by consolidating your payments into a single loan, you might be paying one monthly payment that is smaller than the sum of your current monthly payments, but if they stretch your loan out for a longer period of time you could actually end up paying more interest by consolidating. This calculator will help you to determine whether or not consolidating will actually reduce the cost of retiring your debts.

Instructions: Starting with the first line of entry fields, enter each one of your debts, along with their corresponding principal balances, interest rates and monthly payment amounts (the last two columns will be filled in by the calculator). Once you have entered all of the debts you wish to consolidate, click on the "Compute Current Debt Cost" button. Next, enter the consolidating loan's interest rate, term and any origination fees that might apply and click the "Compute Consolidation Loan Costs" button.

IMPORTANT: In order for the this calculator to work, each debt must have the four left-hand fields filled in (for interest-free debts enter .001 just to satisfy the required interest-rate entry). Also, be sure to enter only numbers and decimal points in the numeric entry fields. Dollar signs, percent signs, commas and spaces will cause a JavaScript error.

 
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Consolidation Loan Terms
Enter the Consolidating Loan's Annual Interest Rate (APR):
Enter the Consolidating Loan's term (number of years):
Enter total of any Consolidation Loan Fees:
Results
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idating
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idating
Difference
Total of Monthly Payment(s):
Months until debts are paid off:
Total Cost (Interest Charges and Loan Fees):
Summary

 
Mortgage Calculator
 
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Mortgage Amount $
Interest Rate %
Mortgage Length Years
Payment Frequency

Payment Amount
Total Interest

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