There is really no such thing as keeping your home out of bankruptcy. When you filed for bankruptcy protection, you had to list everything you owned and all of your debts, including your ownership interest in your residence and any mortgages against it. Unless you signed a document called a "reaffirmation agreement", your personal liability on all of your debts was discharged, including the mortgage. This means that the mortgage company cannot enforce its debt against you personally. For instance, it can never sue you for the money. However, the mortgage company still retains their security interest in your property and the right to foreclose if they are not paid. If you want to keep the residence, then you can continue to voluntarily make your mortgage payments. If your debts were discharged and you did not reaffirm the debt secured by the mortgage, then you could indeed stop making payments and let the house go back to the mortgage company, and you wouldn't owe them anything.
Answered on May 09th, 2013 at 1:55 PM