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Iowa bankruptcies fell 20.2 percent in 2012
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Ahrenholz noted that federal law now prevents a debtor from filing Chapter 7, the most common form of bankruptcy, more frequently than every eight years. As a result, he said, many debtors are in a period during which they can't file another Chapter 7.