Edward M. Flynn

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. Data extracted from the

In this article, we report on home ownership among no-asset chapter 7 debtors. The report is based on 5,832 non-business chapter 7 cases that were closed between 1999 and 2001. 3 We classified each debtor as an owner or a non-owner based on information in Schedules A, C