Whether you practice family law or bankruptcy law, this is the one resource you need when divorce and bankruptcy clash. You'll learn how to successfully establish the differences between the marital estate and the bankruptcy estate. The book covers discharging joint debts, support and property settlement obligations, avoiding liens, preferential transfers of property, premarital agreements and their relationship to bankruptcy law, bankruptcy's impact on non-marital parties, the rights a non-debtor spouse holds against the property of the estate, and other contemporary bankruptcy-divorce issues.

Written by two experts in divorce planning, this book arms readers with the knowledge and tools they need to make it through a divorce with their financial skins intact.

This book offers practical guidance on the new legislation and how it affects divorcing spouses. Among the aspects explained include the types of bankruptcy cases; case commencement; automatic stay; property of the estate; lien avoidance; priority of alimony, maintenance, and support debts; avoidability of transfers between married spouses; executory contracts; dismissal; closing the case; and revocation of discharge. Appendices are contained on an accompanying CD-ROM.

A family breakdown and divorce is often accompanied by financial problems, even insolvency. But to many family lawyers, bankruptcy and personal insolvency, and their impact on ancillary relief, are unfamiliar territory. Bankruptcy and Divorce: A Practical Guide for the Family Lawyer explains succinctly and clearly the underlying law in the UK. It highlights the danger areas for family lawyers and offers problem solving advice. This third edition revises and re-structures the previous edition which was titled Debt and Insolvency on Family Breakdown. It takes into account all recent changes in UK case law. Contents include: debts * bankruptcy and individual voluntary arrangements * assets vesting in the trustee * ownership of the family home * realization of the family home * ancillary relief and bankruptcy * a practical overview.