When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition
The United States is in the midst of a bankruptcy boom, with filings nearly doubling over the past 20 years. With the rising tide of bankruptcies has come an increasing opportunity for conflict between the work of the state courts and the federal bankruptcy courts, and between state domestic relations law and bankruptcy law. Divorce and bankruptcy are similar in that each attempts to provide a "fresh start." However, the objectives of divorce are not necessarily consistent with the goals of bankruptcy. Recent changes to the Bankruptcy Code make it harder to discharge certain obligations that arise in divorce, and help illustrate the differences between the objectives of bankruptcy law and family law. This desk book provides state judges with a brief, readable primer on the bankruptcy law that impacts their subject-matter jurisdictions. These materials provide a satisfactory starting point for any domestic-relations lawyer who needs a basic understanding of how bankruptcy intersects with family law. Appendices feature relevant sections of the Code, as well as a list of cases and articles on the issues discussed within the text.
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When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition
The United States is in the midst of a bankruptcy boom, with filings nearly doubling over the past 20 years. With the rising tide of bankruptcies has come an increasing opportunity for conflict between the work of the state courts and the federal bankruptcy courts, and between state domestic relations law and bankruptcy law. Divorce and bankruptcy are similar in that each attempts to provide a "fresh start." However, the objectives of divorce are not necessarily consistent with the goals of bankruptcy. Recent changes to the Bankruptcy Code make it harder to discharge certain obligations that arise in divorce, and help illustrate the differences between the objectives of bankruptcy law and family law. This desk book provides state judges with a brief, readable primer on the bankruptcy law that impacts their subject-matter jurisdictions. These materials provide a satisfactory starting point for any domestic-relations lawyer who needs a basic understanding of how bankruptcy intersects with family law. Appendices feature relevant sections of the Code, as well as a list of cases and articles on the issues discussed within the text.
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When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition

When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition

When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition

When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and Its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law, Fourth Edition

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Overview

The United States is in the midst of a bankruptcy boom, with filings nearly doubling over the past 20 years. With the rising tide of bankruptcies has come an increasing opportunity for conflict between the work of the state courts and the federal bankruptcy courts, and between state domestic relations law and bankruptcy law. Divorce and bankruptcy are similar in that each attempts to provide a "fresh start." However, the objectives of divorce are not necessarily consistent with the goals of bankruptcy. Recent changes to the Bankruptcy Code make it harder to discharge certain obligations that arise in divorce, and help illustrate the differences between the objectives of bankruptcy law and family law. This desk book provides state judges with a brief, readable primer on the bankruptcy law that impacts their subject-matter jurisdictions. These materials provide a satisfactory starting point for any domestic-relations lawyer who needs a basic understanding of how bankruptcy intersects with family law. Appendices feature relevant sections of the Code, as well as a list of cases and articles on the issues discussed within the text.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013932579
Publisher: American Bankruptcy Institute
Publication date: 03/02/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 517 KB

About the Author

Michaela M. White is a professor of law at Creighton University School of Law and has written extensively on consumer bankruptcy. Prof. White was one of the first recipients of a scholarship grant by the ABI Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund, which funded an empirical study of means testing, Taking the New Consumer Bankruptcy Model for a Test Drive: Means-Testing Real Chapter 7 Debtors, published in the ABI Law Review. A grant from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges funded her empirical study of reaffirmation agreements, the results of which were published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Her other publications include Bankruptcy Issues for State Court Judges (ABI 3d ed. 2005); The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Domestic Support Obligations after BAPCPA 41 Fam. L.Q. 229 (2007); The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: Evaluation of the Effects of Using IRS Expense Standards in Calculating a Debtor’s Disposable Income (2007) (with Steve Carroll, Noreen Clancy, Melissa Bradley, Jennifer Prevar, Marianne Culhane); and Chapter 37, “Conversion and Dismissal,” Collier Practice Guide (2006). Prof. White is the advisor and editor of the National Association for Chapter 13 Trustees’ Academy. She has lectured extensively on BAPCPA issues for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Federal Judicial Center and ABI.
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