Bankruptcy in America is a booming business. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans each year have joined giant corporations, like Johns Manville and Continental Airlines, and once-wealthy individuals, like John Connally, in filing for bankruptcy. Is this dramatic growth a result of mushrooming debt--consumer debt and consumer bankruptcy have both more than doubled since the late 1970s--or does it reflect a moreal decline that permits the middle class to evade their debts? As We Forgive Our Debtors addresses these questions with the data gathered in the largest empirical study of consumer bankruptcy ever done in this country. The authors of this mulit-disciplinary study describe the law and the statistics in clear, nontechnical language, combining a thorough statistical description of the social and economic position of consumer bankrupts with human portraits of the debtors and creditors whose journey has ended in bankruptcy court. In addition to an overall picture of bankruptcy, As We Forgive Our Debtors devotes several chapters to hidden subgroups in bankruptcy. One focuses on women, analyzing the desperate financial circumstances of single women and the increasing pressure on one-income families. Another reveals that more than half of the bankrupts are homeowners and discusses the anomalies in the way they are treated by current law. Other chapters examine the surprising role of medical debts in financial collapse and give a new account of the financial pressures on small businesses. The book also provides the first detailed analysis ever done of the position of various types of creditors whose debtors go bankrupt. This book is destined to become a standard reference for sociologists who study wealth and income and for every credit manager in America. It will also bring to the legal and political debates about bankruptcy law hard facts that will help legal scholars in many fields to measure the distance between armchair theorizing and the law in action.

As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America

Business & Money

Warren, Elizabeth

Sullivan, Teresa A.

Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

Finance

Oxford University Press

Bankruptcy in America is a booming business. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans file for bankruptcy each year, joining such giant corporations as Johns Manville and Continental Airlines, and once-wealthy individuals such as former Texas governor John Connally and rock star James Taylor. Is this dramatic growth a result of mushrooming debt--consumer debt and consumer bankruptcy have both more than doubled since the late 1970s--or does it reflect a moral decline that permits the middle class to evade their debts? As We Forgive Our Debtors addresses these questions with the data gathered in the largest empirical study of consumer bankruptcy ever done in this country. The authors of this multi-disciplinary study describe the law and the statistics in clear, nontechnical language, combining a thorough statistical description of the social and economic position of consumer bankrupts with human portraits of the debtors and creditors whose journey has ended in bankruptcy court. In addition to an overall picture of bankruptcy, As We Forgive Our Debtors devotes several chapters to hidden subgroups in bankruptcy. One focuses on women, analyzing the desperate financial circumstances of single women and increasing pressure on one-income families. Another reveals that over half of the debtors are homeowners and discusses the anomalies in the way they are treated by current law. Other chapters examine the surprising role of medical debts in financial collapse and give a new account of the financial pressures on small businesses. The book also provides the first detailed analysis ever done of the position of various types of creditors whose debtors go bankrupt. This book is destined to become a standard reference for sociologists who study wealth and income and for every credit manager in America. It will also bring to the legal and political debates about bankruptcy law hard facts that will help legal scholars in many fields to measure the distance between armchair theorizing and the law in action.

Economics

Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that have emerged since the original publication. “[A] fascinating, alarming study. . . . [This] chilling diagnosis of middle-class affliction demonstrates that we all may be only a job loss, medical problem or credit card indulgence away from the downward spiral leading to bankruptcy.”—Publishers Weekly "A well-designed and carefully executed study."—Andrew Greeley, University of Chicago "The Fragile Middle Class, a well-written work of social science that is about as gripping as the genre gets, forces us to reevaluate notions about consumerism."—American Prospect

The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt

Sullivan IV, Teresa A.

Yale University Press

&lt;p> The lively style, excellent problems, and balanced coverage of &lt;b>The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems&lt;/b> have made this text one of the leading bankruptcy law casebooks. Honed through six editions, it continues to provide students and professors with an exemplary instructional tool. &lt;/p> &lt;p> &lt;b>Among the attributes that make this casebook a favorite with teachers and students alike&lt;/b>: &lt;/p> &lt;ul> &lt;li> &lt;b>more than 50 problem sets &lt;/b>&#8212; featuring the realistic questions a lawyer considers in confronting the statutory provisions for a bankruptcy case &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>explanatory text throughout&lt;/b> makes bankruptcy law accessible to students and easier to teach &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>organized functionally, as a bankruptcy case would unfold &lt;/b>&#8212; students find it logical and sensible &lt;/li> &lt;li> a &lt;b>thematic &#8220;mega-problem&#8221; appears throughout the book&lt;/b>, providing chapter-by-chapter review and integrating elements of all chapters at the end of the book &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>consumer bankruptcy is separated from business bankruptcy for clarity&lt;/b>, and the text begins with the more familiar consumer bankruptcy &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>an excellent Teacher&#8217;s Manual&lt;/b> that is especially helpful to newer professors &lt;/li> &lt;/ul> &lt;p> &lt;b>This timely revision has been updated to reflect recent developments and case law and includes&lt;/b>: &lt;/p> &lt;ul> &lt;li> &lt;b>coverage of cases resulting from the 2005 Amendments&lt;/b>, including consumer bankruptcy, including Chapter 7; Chapter 13, the &#8220;hanging paragraph;&#8221; and means test eligibility &lt;/li> &lt;li> &lt;b>expanded business law coverage&lt;/b> with individualized treatment of small business bankruptcies and their bigger, publicly traded Chapter 11 cousins, emphasizing the rapid changes in the world of reorganization and the first international cases under Chapter 15 &lt;/li> &lt;li> as in past editions, there are problem sets for each subject area in the book, however the sixth edition will have &lt;b>variations of some of the problems available, allowing for more flexibility&lt;/b> &lt;/li> &lt;/ul> &lt;p> Classroom-tested through five editions, revised to keep pace with the most recent developments in the world of bankruptcy, &lt;b>The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems, Sixth Edition&lt;/b>, is an unbeatable method for teaching a practical, animated, and completely state-of-the-art course. &lt;/p> &lt;p> &lt;/p>

Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases and Problems

Business

Little,Brown & Co

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (Law School Casebook Series)

Little Brown & Co Law & Business

This distinct commercial statutes supplement: <ul>
<li> is more functional than most other supplements, due to thicker paper and a thinner volume, allowing users to highlight important sections without obscuring text on the other side of the page </li> <li> includes the entire text (excluding Article 6), with comments, of the Uniform Commercial Code as promulgated by the National Council of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, but excludes items that typically appear in such supplements that are not important to the commercial law courses </li> <li> supplies a variety of important documents that typically are not part of other supplements, including documents produced by bodies such as UNCITRAL and privately produced commercial law documents from entities such as the ICC </li> <li> provides several value added features that cross-reference the various parts of the Uniform Commercial Code, particularly Revised Article 9, in response to the increasing complexity of this statute </li> </ul>

Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement 2011

Mann, Ronald J.

Foreign & International Law

Aspen Law & Business

This statutory supplement was designed to be smaller but physically stronger than other supplements, with thicker paper. The entire Uniform Commercial Code of the United States is included, along with relevant portions of Bankruptcy law (Titles 11, 18, and 28). Other selected federal and state statutes and related regulations are also included, as well as some uniform international laws and rules. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Comprehensive Commercial Law 2003 Statutory

Mann, Ronald J., Warren, Elizabeth, Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

Comprehensive Commercial Law, 2004

ASPEN PUB.

Book by Mann, Ronald J., Warren, Elizabeth, Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

Comprehensive Commercial Law Statutory Supplement 2006

Warren, Elizabeth, Westbrook, Jay Lawrence

The Law of Debtors And Creditors: Text, Cases, And Problems

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As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America

As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America

The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt

Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases and Problems

The Law of Debtors and Creditors: Text, Cases, and Problems (Law School Casebook Series)

Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement 2011

Comprehensive Commercial Law 2003 Statutory

Comprehensive Commercial Law, 2004

Comprehensive Commercial Law Statutory Supplement 2006

The Law of Debtors And Creditors: Text, Cases, And Problems