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Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice

2009 9th ed. and 2011 Supplement

1442 pages in two volumes, with 394-page 2011 Supplement
and Companion Website
ISBN 978-1-60248-057-5

Summary Contents
Table of Contents
Supplement Contents
Index
About the Companion Website
About the Authors

The definitive consumer bankruptcy treatise, updated with the latest case law and Bankruptcy Code, forms, fee schedules, and rules, by Henry Sommer, the nation’s leading author on consumer bankruptcy.
Two Volumes Filled with Practice Tools and Expert Guidance

Volume One is the most detailed and incisive analysis anywhere of all consumer bankruptcy topics. Volume Two is packed with practice aids in the text and on the website: a client questionnaire, completed and annotated official forms, software to complete the forms, 170 pleadings, a date calculator, IRS forms, means test data, client handouts, and more.

Definitive Guidance

Everything you need to file a chapter 7, 12, or 13 bankruptcy:

  • Automatic stay, the bankruptcy discharge, and remedies for stay and discharge violations
  • Using bankruptcy to deal with a foreclosure
  • Exemptions, lien avoidance and secured claims
  • Hidden fees and overcharges in creditor claims
  • Attorney fees
  • Litigating consumer cases in bankruptcy
  • Non-dischargeability actions
  • Creditor reaffirmation abuses
  • Consumers as creditors of bankrupt merchants, landlords, or lenders.
A Complete Practice Package — The Best Value Anywhere
  • Client questionnaire (English and Spanish)
  • Software to complete the initial forms
  • Annotated sample completed initial forms
  • 170 sample pleadings in Word format
  • A date calculator to compute 24 key look-back dates
  • 2012 means test data
  • Forms and tips to obtain client tax records
  • State-by-state analysis of exemption law
  • The Bankruptcy Code and other bankruptcy statutes
  • Bankruptcy rules, in effect for 2012
  • Client handouts.

"Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice is a must for every counselor and practicing bankruptcy lawyer in the consumer field. I hope practitioners in my court acquaint themselves with this valuable work."
-- Judge Marilyn Morgan, U. S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California

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