This book is written for every lawyer who practices or advises clients on consumer bankruptcy law.

To view or access the 2019 supplement, click here. Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice puts bankruptcy law in context, illuminating the evolution of the Bankruptcy Code with an exploration of current and historical non-bankruptcy remedies. The book continually approaches each topic through the goals of creditors and debtors, exploring how each is served in various parts of the Code. Extensive questions and numerous problems focus student attention on the mechanics of the bankruptcy process. But they do so through the lens of history and policy, and they explain why the law is the way it is. The authors' aim in designing the casebook was to provide a very accessible medium for introducing students to bankruptcy law in a sophisticated manner. As the title indicates, the emphasis is on the relationship between the core principles essential to an understanding of the law, the policies animating those principles, and the challenges presented by the effectuation of those principles and policies in bankruptcy practice. In its methodology, Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice relies on a variety of expository tools--textual discussion, comprehension questions, problems, cases and thought / discussion questions--all with a careful eye toward building upon previous materials and concepts. Economy of presentation is the hallmark of the casebook, but the Teacher's Manual picks up where the casebook leaves off. The Teacher's Manual is consciously drafted (in both organization and voice) as a set of detailed teaching notes. This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book. PowerPoint slides are available upon adoption of this book. Download sample slides from the full 38-chapter presentation here. If you have adopted the book for a course, contact [email protected] to request the PowerPoint slides.

This practical guide through the unique and difficult issues involved when a past or current service member divorces includes a CD-ROM with forms.

Every year, more than a million people file for bankruptcy. This book gives them a clear and complete overview of the bankruptcy process, explains the repurcussions of filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and provides step-by-step instructions and all the forms necessary to file. It clearly outlines what debts can and cannot be eliminated in bankruptcy, what property debtors risk losing, how to protect assets and rebuild credit and how to deal with aggressive credit card companies seeking speedy credit repayment. State-by-state exemption tables included.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.