News Topic: 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments (BAPCPA)

I was surprised to find that the explosive new US immigration "public charge" rule has some interesting bankruptcy angles. ... Read full article

Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren unveiled her new plan to reform the consumer bankruptcy system . The plan is simple, yet elegant. It is based on actual data and research (including some of my own with Consumer Bankruptcy Project co-investigators Slipster ... Read full article

In America, people drive — to work, to the doctor, to the grocery store, to their kids' daycare, to see their aging parents. Research shows that car ownership increases the probability of employment and number of hours worked; households without cars ... Read full article

I hope I'm not stepping on Bob's toes in announcing the public release of the long-awaited report of the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy . ... Read full article

As anyone familiar with bankruptcy would have predicted, the dire predictions of disaster for municipalities seeking bankruptcy protection have proven to be ... let's just say exaggerated. ... Read full article

It was like eight nights of Chanukkah in one for me watching the Democratic debate last night. There was a Glass-Steagal lovefest going on. But here's the thing:   no one seems to get why Glass-Steagal was important or the connection between ... Read full article

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Former Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler died last week. ... Read full article

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I had the pleasure of participating in this weekend's very successful  Research Symposium on Student Loans organized by Kathleen Engel of Suffolk Law School and Deanne Loonin of the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)  (NCLC, by the way, is looking ... Read full article

A few weeks ago, I posted about an apparent movement to challenge the bankruptcy-exempt status of IRAs based on boilerplate language commonly found in the account agreements of many of the nation's largest brokerages. The legal argument rested on ... Read full article

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Hot of the presses that the EOUST has (again) suspended its "required" debtor audits due to budgetary constraints.  Initially they were supposed to do 1 in every 250, and that number fell in recent years to one in every 1,500 or so due to ... Read full article

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Politics is not my strong suit -- this, ironically, from the faculty sponsor of both the Democratic  and Republican student associations at Michigan Law.  (No, I am not confused; I was asked presumably because each group wanted a political independent, ... Read full article