Consumer Bankruptcy

Consumer Bankruptcy Jan 11, 2017

The Clerk's Office: An Underutilized Resource

The Clerk's Offices of U.S. Bankruptcy Courts offer the bankruptcy community a plethora of services that often are underutilized and may be unknown to many constituencies. Many clerk's offices have adopted a customer-service approach in organizational design and

Judicial Discretion to Find Abuse under 707(b)(3)

[T]here is nothing wrong with the means test. People who make high incomes–lawyers, doctors and accountants are examples–and file bankruptcy, wiping out all their debts, who don't care who got hurt by their failure to pay and they care only about themselves, this will