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Debt. Credit card debt. Personal debt.  For many reasons, people may get themselves into financial difficulty with unmanageable debt levels. These reasons may include sickness, loss of job, broken relationships or purely over-commitment. This article explores methods of dealing with these situations for individuals from informal means to more formal approaches under the bankruptcy provisions to enable financial rehabilitation.

Mortgage Insurance or Lenders' Mortgage Insurance (also referred to as LMI) is the insurance that a lender takes out in case you, the borrower,  default and they have to sell your property used as a collateral.  

Mortgage insurance is based on a projected shortfall between the debt amount and what lenders think they could get for your property. Mortgage insurance can also be capitalised into the loan. Mortgage brokers usually cannot apply for mortgage insurance contracts.