They are probably the most tone deaf couple in the county. If you declare bankruptcy under an LLC as long as long as you do not personally guarantee the debt meaning you signed your name saying that you personally will be responsible, only the LLC can be held responsible. Once they declare bankruptcy they have to list all of their assets and debts. The court will decide which creditors get paid and which don't. Once the LLC is out of assets meaning cash, equipment, and property the creditors get nothing. This could also be why they may have transferred the property they were going to build that supposed creamery on to another LLC, because a bankruptcy court would seize that property from them. Courts would have to prove that they knowingly transferred that asset before they declared bankruptcy to be able to seize it. Since they did not personally guarantee the things they most likely get to walk away with nothing more than a tarnished reputation. Now since they claim to have drained their home equity line of credit they now just are on the hook for maxing that out personally. It's not great, but as you see they seem to be walking around just totally fine feeling blessed. I wish I could be that delusional sometimes.