student loan limited income don’t know what to do?

Hello, I am married and have 2 Autistic dependent minors of my own. I was attending college and ran into a number of problems.  I won’t bore you with the details, but to make a long story short, I had a sister who passed away, but she had two children that I had to take in as there was noone else.  All this resulted in me having to leave school, take a minimun wage job to support my family.  I still couldn’t do it so my neices ended up in foster care as I just couldn’t support us all.

Now my luck has taken a turn for the worst and my health has gone.  I have to spend a great deal on to pay for trips to the specialist, medications, and child care while I have been in and out of the hospital. My instructions are very celar, I am supposed to keep my stress level down but now I have had some calls from collection companies.

The problem is that I have no income, I have not worked for 7 months, up to now I have not missed a payment.  As I have no income (dissability has denied my claim as a diagnosis has not been made yet) we are completly dependant on my husband to look after us.

He works hard, drives a TAxi, but doesnt’ make much in good times and of course we all know that this isn’t a good economy.  What do I do, I have student loans I have been paying on for the last 13 years, I have a couple of credit cards and a line of credit, I am not hiding from my responsibility I just can’t pay it anymore.  I alo have a credit card and a line of credit.  All in all it is about $17,000 I don’t know what to do.

Posted on Saturday, May 9, 2009 | Filed under: Bankruptcy
 posted by Questions @ 11:58 pm 1 Comment
1 Expert Comment:

 At May 16, 2009 | 7:16 am , Bart Goth, Trustee in Bankruptcy Said...

The best thing for you to do is to sit down with a local trustee. There are a variety of options you can look at, but with no income likely filing for bankruptcy will fit your situation best. This will likely depend on your total household cash flow each month, and you will find the more flexibility you have in this cash flow the more likely you will find one of the alternatives to bankruptcy that will work in your situation.

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