Consumer Bankruptcy

Questions concerning what relief the Bankruptcy Code affords to persons seeking to discharge their government-related student loans are, in all likelihood, a common topic of discussion between most potential debtors and their bankruptcy counsel. While most bankruptcy

The choice of chapter by consumer filers cannot be reliably predicted by economic differences among jurisdictions or by legal differences such as the variance in state exemption levels. 2 In order to explain why, for example, chapter 13 cases account for 70 percent of

Under the Bankruptcy Code prior to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), §1322(d), 1 "Contents of plan" stated: The plan may not provide for payments over a period that is longer than three years unless the court, for cause

We've all heard the rationale for bankruptcy reform at cocktail parties and around the dinner table: Any deadbeat who runs up his bills can, before he pays up, run away and buy a house in Florida. The creditors can't touch his homestead. When the spendthrift files a