Bankruptcy: Problems, Cases, and Materials (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series)

This book focuses on eleven problems, based upon factual situations, concerning bankruptcy. These problems include how to reorganize a failing business using the Bankruptcy Code; how to help individuals restructure their finances in order to pull out of debt and get a fresh start; how to use the Bankruptcy Code to pull out of debt; how to help working families and middle management executives financially survive and prosper; and how the Bankruptcy Code fits with other statutes. Also addressed are such topics as privacy and customer lists as assets of the estate; toxic torts and how to save a business overwhelmed with lawsuits; municipal financial failure and how the Bankruptcy Code can help; Enron and fraud in business; and how to guard against business takeovers using the Bankruptcy Code. This book makes readers think in terms of problem solutions as opposed to simply case or concept analysis. Cases, questions, and text are used as means to explain and solve the problems, and the problems increase in complexity as the book goes on. This book deals with fundamentals, concepts, and structuring a plan, however each problem addressed can and does stand alone as a situation requiring a lawyer's skill to resolve. Bankruptcy is not a problem book in the sense that a reader needs a text or casebook to go with it. Alone, it is a fully integrated tool that shows readers how to use the Bankruptcy Code as a means of solving legal problems.