Be It Ever So Humble Theres No Place Like Home
In this article, we report on home ownership among no-asset chapter 7 debtors. The report is based on 5,832 non-business chapter 7 cases that were closed between 1999 and 2001. 3 We classified each debtor as an owner or a non-owner based on information in Schedules A, C
Consumer Filings Trends and Indicators Part I
Part I of this article looks at consumer bankruptcy filing rates and attempts to identify some trends and economic indicators that might predict those filing rates. The $64,000 question (which, adjusted for inflation, today would be the "$484,537 question") is, what
An Overview of Bankruptcy Litigation
Editor's Note: This month's column provides an overview of some of the differences between bankruptcy "litigation" and litigation in a non-bankruptcy forum, highlighting some pitfalls that traditional litigators may encounter when they venture into the bankruptcy arena