No, it isn’t because I owe the bank with credit cards debt or personal loan.

Here’s a backstory. I was 21 when my parents decided to put my name as one of the directors for their companies. They also took some personal loan from a bank to push business (invest in projects, events etc). By 23, I had a company under my name, loans under the company’s name and personal loan under my name.

By 24, the business went down extremely bad. No more clients. The worst downturn was when the company was legally sued by one of their clients. Without a black and white evidence from our side (my parents were naive when it comes to this, they never expected this kind of unfortunate event would ever happen to their business) we lost the case. With business going extremely bad, we barely had any money to pay for a better lawyer.
Take note that when all of this happened, I was just a student who is trying her best to finish her degree with honour. I wasn't directly involved in any of my parents’ business matter nor do I get to enjoy the benefit of being one for the director.

The legal damage was so huge, there’s no way that our family could pay. I just graduated from my college degree and started my career with only RM2500 pay per month. The legal damage was about RM60k. This doesn’t include the personal loan that was under my name that was left unpaid. Business wasn’t getting any better; my brother had to drop out of college, and started his own burger stall for a living.

My family had to move to my parent's kampung since living in the city is just too expensive, living me behind as I chose to stay and continue working at my current company. I barely have any savings now; I couldn’t even afford to get any insurance. I was living from paycheque to paycheque when I found out a few months ago my bank accounts went frozen due to direct order from the insolvency. That’s when I found out I am officially bankrupt.

I’m 25, never had any credit card or student loan. Personal loan was made by parents (with my consent of course, but I was too naive to figure what were the risks), and a business legal matter that I wasn’t even a part of (except for the fact that my name was listed as one of the directors).

I’ve talked to my parents about this but they asked me to give them some time to handle it even it is clear that we are basically living in poverty and survive from what they could get from the burger stall business (their business just went down the drain and new project is almost non-existence). Part of me wanted to go to insolvency and discuss what could be done, how do I get out of this. But part of me knew I could barely pay back with the amount I earn monthly and all my other financial commitments (car loan, house rent, groceries, gas, bills)

I just don’t know what to do, all I want is to clear my name but it wasn’t even my “fault” in the first place that made me fall into this situation.

With so much humility, I ask for some financial guidance and advice on how do I get out of this.
My dream was to really continue my master degree abroad (as the course I'm planning to take isn't in the country) but with my current situation, it looks like its close to impossible.

Thank you for any advise and I'm sorry for the long post.