Involuntary Individual Chapter 11 Post-BAPCPA as a Collection Device
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. Issues and problems remain
Avoidance of Transfers of Entireties Property - No Harm No Foul
The doctrine of tenants by the entireties contemplates the ownership of property by the marital union itself ("one flesh") and not by the separate spouses as co-tenants. As a result, the Bankruptcy Code preserves the debtor's right, when only one spouse files a
Ghosts of Individual Chapter 11 Debtors Ethical Issues in Representing Debtors in Individual Chapter 11s under BAPCPA Part I
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 Ebenezer Scrooge, is featured as