Editor's Note: Part I was featured in the November 2006 ABI Journal. This part of the article examines the correlation of the following economic indicators to the non-business bankruptcy filing rate (per 1,000 population). I have chosen var…

The changes to "individual chapter 11" wrought by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), which essentially grafted the chapter 13 structure onto chapter 11 for individuals, have been controversial. Iss…

This article honors (or dishonors) one of bankruptcy's greatest pieces of literature, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. 1 Early in the story, one of the most famous individual debtors in history, Jacob Marley, the former partner of Ebe…

This article challenges the conclusions set forth in Justin H. Dion's article, "Timing Is Everything...or Is It?: Cortez Challenges the 'Snapshot' Approach to Analyzing Abuse Pursuant to §707(b)," 1 which appeared in the October 2006 issue …