{"id":132,"date":"2010-10-27T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:57:00","slug":"no-im-not-associated-with-legal-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/no-im-not-associated-with-legal-helpers\/","title":{"rendered":"No, I&#8217;m not associated with &quot;Legal Helpers&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a fax yesterday from someone who said he had been given my name by an outfit called &#8220;Legal Helpers.&#8221;  He said they were not attorneys and that they were helping him prepare his own bankruptcy without an attorney.  He seemed to think that somehow I was associated with them.  Please let the record reflect that I am not.<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing to do with them. In addition I want to say that anyone trying to file their own bankruptcy without a lawyer is taking a very serious risk.  To anyone who is trying to do that:  please don&#8217;t rely on anything I have posted on my web site or anywhere else.  Nothing written or provided by me is intended for do-it-yourself use, and trying to use my material that way could lead you to disaster.  My web pages are nothing but a few general comments, not intended to be any sort of an exhaustive treatise. <\/p>\n<p>Lincoln said it:  &#8220;He who represents himself has a fool for a lawyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a fax yesterday from someone who said he had been given my name by an outfit called &#8220;Legal Helpers.&#8221; He said they were not attorneys and that they were helping him prepare his own bankruptcy without an attorney. He seemed to think that somehow I was associated with them. Please let the record &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/no-im-not-associated-with-legal-helpers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not associated with &quot;Legal Helpers&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No, I&#039;m not associated with &quot;Legal Helpers&quot; - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/no-im-not-associated-with-legal-helpers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No, I&#039;m not associated with &quot;Legal Helpers&quot; - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I got a fax yesterday from someone who said he had been given my name by an outfit called &#8220;Legal Helpers.&#8221; He said they were not attorneys and that they were helping him prepare his own bankruptcy without an attorney. 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