Bankruptcy Alberta: Filing a consumer proposal with recent gambling losses?

Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009

I am getting help with a gambling addiction. I have been clean for one month now, I had used credit cards as cash advances to fuel my gambling until a month ago, before I started to seek help.
Can I still file a proposal (if denied) a bankruptcy, with recent transactions due to gambling.
I would not want to be charged with fraud, and am willing to be honest and pay or do whatever I have to in order to make my life liveable once again, free from gambling.
Just wondering if that could pose a serious legal problem with me, or can I start to work on a solution to my financial problems now?

Labels: consumer proposal

1 Comments:

At 8:05 AM, Barton Goth, CIRP, Trustee in Bankruptcy said…

A gambling addiction can make filing a consumer proposal more difficult than normal situations as the creditors may see this as a risk that could prevent you from finishing a proposal. Typically the longer you have been recovered and the more time that has elapsed from your most recent cash advance that was related to gambling, then the more likely a proposal will be considered by your creditors.

However, regardless of what happens with a proposal you will still be eligible to file a bankruptcy and while the recent gambling will be considered by the court when it is discharge time, but usually the court is quite reasonable as long as you can demonstrate that you have obtained help for the gambling and are continuing to do so.