Find the best financial services for you at: SMARTFINANCESOLUTIONS.NET - I am a cosigner and I plan on filing bankruptcy, how will this affect me? - I am considering filing for bankruptcy, and I am a cosigner on my mothers house and a lien was put on it for me owing on a different credit card, my questions regarding this are:

-How long will I be on bankruptcy?
-Can I still use my credit card that I have now and paying every month on? I paid 500 cash for the card (reusing my own cash basically)
-I live in an apartment that I pay rent for and I am considering going on government assistance cause times are hard, will I get the help from them?
-How will this affect my mothers home that I cosigned on? -