Mar 2003 | CPEX

Bankruptcy Petition Preparers: What Is the Future?

A number of reported decisions and anecdotal reports indicate that despite the efforts of Congress to curtail, if not eliminate, bankruptcy petition preparers (BPPs), this "industry" continues to thrive. BPPs run the gamut from the single o…

TY Thomas J. Yerbich

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Mar
2003

Consumer Debt Unsecured Trade Creditors

High-debt Debtors

Each year since 1998, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees (EOUST) has collected 2,000 randomly selected chapter 7 no-asset cases from across the country. All of these cases were filed, processed and closed as non-business consumer cases.…

EF Edward M. Flynn GB Gordon Bermant

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Mar
2003