Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Oversight of the Implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the CourtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Oversight of the implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act : hearing
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422322918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Bankruptcy Law
Author: Sandra Coaxum AllenPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438105924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
More than 1 million U.S. households declared bankruptcy in 2004. Alarmed by rising defaults, the nation's lenders and political leaders alike set out to reform laws that clear away debt. To some, reforming these laws will put a lid on irresponsible consumer spending sprees. But some consumer advocates argue that banks and credit card issuers have only themselves to blame for marketing and supplying ill-advised loans. Is this political action timely consumer protection or an unwarranted corporate bailout? Bankruptcy Law covers these issues and more, examining each from different perspectives.
Second Anniversary of the Enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Handbook for Chapter 7 Trustees
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy examiners
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.