News Topic: consumer bankruptcy

Bankruptcy attorney James Selbach is used to being told he’s overreacting. ... Read full article

Thanks to all who commented on my earlier post on the interaction of §§ 544(a)(3) and 551 and homeownership in bankruptcy; as hoped, CreditSlip readers helped me frame the questions that I continue to have about Traverse and the larger policy questions it ... Read full article

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Bank of America v. Sinkfield, an 11th Circuit case raising the issue whether a junior lien wholly unsupported by collateral value can be stripped off in chapter 7.  ... Read full article

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If you are looking for trite and oversimplified assertions about bankruptcy stigma, then stay away from the latest issue of the  American Bankruptcy Law Journal . In those pages, Professor Michael Sousa  from the University of Denver has a wonderful paper ... Read full article

Conventional wisdom views bankruptcy as a place that protects homeowners and homeownership.  One of the primary reasons Chapter 13 allows debtors to retain all property of the estate, whether exempt or not, is to allow debtors to hang on to their personal ... Read full article

Bhashkar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) and Sarah Miller (Notre Dame) have a new study out that examines the effect of Massachusett's major health care reform in 2006 on individuals' financial well-being. Similar to the Affordable ... Read full article

By:  Steven Ching St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By: Michael C. Aryeh St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By:  Christopher McCune St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By:  Christian Corkery St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

It's all the rage these days to beat up on law school as a bad investment and to moan about the economic travails of the legal profession.  There are some reasonable critiques that can be leveled at the shape of legal education and its costs and ... Read full article

By: Sarah Roe St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By: Kimberly Tracey St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By: Patrick Christensen St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

By: Michelle Nicotera St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff   ... Read full article

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fewer than 1,000 people  try each year . Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ... Read full article

It’s nearly impossible to cancel your student loan debt in bankruptcy. Fewer than 1,000 people  try each year . Those who do are required to file a lawsuit against their lenders and then convince a bankruptcy judge that they’re so poor there’s no hope of ... Read full article