Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bankrupt in America
Author: Mary Eschelbach HansenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667973X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In 2005, more than two million Americans—six out of every 1,000 people—filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In Bankrupt in America, Mary and Brad Hansen offer a vital perspective on the history of bankruptcy in America, beginning with the first lasting federal bankruptcy law enacted in 1898. Interweaving careful legal history and rigorous economic analysis, Bankrupt in America is the first work to trace how bankruptcy was transformed from an intermittently used constitutional provision, to an indispensable tool for business, to a central element of the social safety net for ordinary Americans. To do this, the authors track federal bankruptcy law, as well as related state and federal laws, examining the interaction between changes in the laws and changes in how people in each state used the bankruptcy law. In this thorough investigation, Hansen and Hansen reach novel conclusions about the causes and consequences of bankruptcy, adding nuance to the discussion of the relationship between bankruptcy rates and economic performance.
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
In Re Payne
Author: Debt's Dominion
Author: David A. Skeel Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400828503
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere? Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the remarkable journey American bankruptcy law has taken from its beginnings in 1800, when Congress lifted the country's first bankruptcy code right out of English law, to the present day. Skeel shows that the confluence of three forces that emerged over many years--an organized creditor lobby, pro-debtor ideological currents, and an increasingly powerful bankruptcy bar--explains the distinctive contours of American bankruptcy law. Their interplay, he argues in clear, inviting prose, has seen efforts to legislate bankruptcy become a compelling battle royale between bankers and lawyers--one in which the bankers recently seem to have gained the upper hand. Skeel demonstrates, for example, that a fiercely divided bankruptcy commission and the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress have yielded the recent, ideologically charged battles over consumer bankruptcy. The uniqueness of American bankruptcy has often been noted, but it has never been explained. As different as twenty-first century America is from the horse-and-buggy era origins of our bankruptcy laws, Skeel shows that the same political factors continue to shape our unique response to financial distress.
Business and Commerce Code
Author: TexasBankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2001
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793
Author: Charles Brockden BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description