Bankruptcy & Potential Affects On Liens

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If bankruptcy has been filed on a person who owns a property, does that erase all liens on that property? This is Dave at TitleSearch.com. Bankruptcy may not erase all liens on a piece of real estate. There's some liens that stay accrued to a property regardless of the bankruptcy of the owner. Sometimes it may be a Homeowner Association encumbrance, sometimes government liens, tax liens, remain on that property and endure a bankruptcy. These aren't things that are, even if they're unsecured or technically unsecured, they may not be raced by a bankruptcy or even a foreclosure on a property. It's really good to get good legal advice and have them take a look at the current title search of a property so that you know if you're purchasing a piece of real estate and the prior owner went through a bankruptcy, that you're not just taking it at face value... that everything in that bankruptcy or everything that that owner had is you raced from that parcel. If more questions about doing research on real estate records, you can reach us at our website at title search dot com.