Bankruptcy And Debtor/creditor: Examples And Explanations (Examples & Explanations)

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To keep pace with the recent major changes in bankruptcy law, noted author Brian Blum presents a completely revised edition of his popular study guide, "Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor: Examples & Explanations." This comprehensive text is well known for its effectiveness in helping students understand the many rules, principles, and policies of the area.

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Excellent Primer on Bankruptcy.......2007-07-21

I am an experienced lawyer and regularly read books (usually one-volume treatises) outside my practice area. Comprehensive books on bankruptcy are hard to find, and I purchased Blum's for lack of any alternative. The book is well organized, clearly written, and contains a lot of information. Even the attempts at humor are generally successful.

To offer some unsolicited advice to law students, I don't recommend using this or any supplementary texts in your courses. Stick with the casebook and other materials the instructor assigns. It may seem as if this requires more effort to learn the subject than is warranted, but you won't regret it. You'll never have the time once you start working to reread and think about cases that you have while in school. That 3 years may seem like a long time, but if you take it seriously you will benefit significantly throughout your career. It is surprising how often I encounter exprienced lawyers who are ignorant of matters I learned in law school (now long past) and still remember.

The right tools.......2007-04-24

If you are taking an introductory course in Bankruptcy, get a copy of this book - And use it! If your course also includes Chapter 11 Reorganizations, I would also recommend that you get a copy of Chapter Chapter 11 Business Reorganizations: For Business Leaders, Accountants And Lawyers. They are useful before exams. But I recommend getting them at the start of the semester.

Excellent.......2007-04-10

This is a great supplement that covers the 2005 changes in the code. Watch out for other supplements that are still owrking off of the pre-2005 amendments.

Awesome.......2007-01-03

This book made the new bankruptcy code changes actually easy to understand. It saved my life and my grade!

Good job.......2004-05-10

The author did a good job organizing the information in this book.

I would also recommend Surviving Financial Disasters by Tiffany R. Love which comes with a CD ROM and actual sample court documents from someone who has been there and done that. Also tells what to expect after you filed your papers.

Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals
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Excellent as a textbook

Basic Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals
David L. Buchbinder
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
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ASIN: 0735557535

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Excellent as a textbook.......2006-11-22

I use this book in teaching a Bankruptcy class to California paralegal students. It is an excellent introduction to the bankruptcy system, and includes discussions of both consumer and business bankruptcies (with a definite emphasis on the consumer side). I expecially appreciate the thorough treatment of the BAPA (laws that changed in October 2005).

Collection Agency Harassment: What the Debt Collector Doesn't Want You to Know

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Decent Book
Collection Agency Harassment: - ok
Empowering!
This Book Says It All!

Collection Agency Harassment: What the Debt Collector Doesn't Want You to Know
Richard L. DiMaggio
Manufacturer: Archimedes Press, Inc.
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Talk Your Way Out of Credit Card Debt!: Phone Calls to Banks That Saved More Than $43,000 in Interest Charges and Fees

ASIN: 0971711909

Book Description

Teaches consumers and their lawyers how to fight the debt collector! Author is a consumer protection attorney who has been suing the debt collector for over a decade. Learn their secrets. Learn their tricks. Learn how to sue them. Complete with sample complaints and End Notes.

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Worth the price.......2007-09-30

I used this book to successfully fight a $20,000 debt that was not even mine. It's true that debt collectors do not want you to know your rights. I wrote a total of 4 letters to the agency, gave them documentation on why I didn't owe it (proved that it had actually been paid off) and they left me alone. It even gives sample letters to write. I highly recommend this book based on actual experience.

Decent Book.......2006-05-26

This is a decent book. I am a 3L law student thinking of doing collections. This book is an excellent choice for the average person with no legal education. As a law student though I always expect more though but it does set out the basics in an unbiased manner with the law printed in the appendix. Definitely worth the price.

STAY AWAY from To Pay or Not to Pay: Insider Secrets to Beating Credit Card Debt and Creditors by Stanley G. Hilton. I also purchased that book and it was horrible. Even as a 3L I know that many of the "solutions" he outlines are not realistic (suing a doctor for malpractice to stop a collection is pure insanity). Stick with DiMaggio's book.

Collection Agency Harassment: - ok.......2006-04-17

so -so review, Mostly common sense. But a few good tips on mounting a counter attack although it doesn't let you know the practicalities of enforcing the FDCPA, namely that federal and state agencies typically don't respond to your complaints except with a form letter and no action.

Empowering!.......2005-06-23

This book gave me the information I needed to take control. Collection agencies do not have a right to harass you when obviously you've hit a rough time. After reading this book I am no longer intimated by a letter or phone call because I now know my rights and how I can use them.

This book was a great source of education and empowering!

This Book Says It All!.......2005-04-05

I would first like to state that I read both of Rich DiMaggio's books: Credit Repair and the other, Collection Agency Harassment. I have also seen him speak. He is an outstanding speaker and a really intelligent man. When I get done listening to him, I finally feel like I have power over "the system". Truthfully--he would probably speak for your group, too, because he has a true passion about these subjects. He gives advice based on 15 years in the courtroom against the credit industry.

These are 2 distinct books, and should not be lumped into one category. There is overlap because debt collectors use our credit reports against us, but the similarities stop there. Mr. DiMaggio will teach you how to draft exacting letters of disputes, and where to send them. He explains the intricacies of the bankruptcy law, charge-offs, divorce, false identities, FICO scoring an more. I don't have a clue what Chrissy is saying about misleading titles. This book is the best I have seen.

(By the way, if you go to the web site, the author actually responds to emails!)

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

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One of the worst casebooks

The Law of Debtors And Creditors: Text, Cases, And Problems
Elizabeth Warren , and Jay Lawrence Westbrook
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ASIN: 0735557888

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One of the worst casebooks.......2007-02-22

This is one of the worst casebooks ever written, although it wont stop the sales because most students do not have a choice of textbooks. The book is poorly edited and leaves out crucial pieces of information (such as which statute is relevant). The book is also in an order that is not conducive to learning the material.

Bankruptcy, Seventh Edition (University Casebook Series)

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Bankruptcy, Seventh Edition (University Casebook Series)
William D. Warren , and Daniel J. Bussel
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
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ASIN: 1599410664

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This law school casebook provides detailed information on bankruptcy law. The casebook provides the tools for on-point study of the fundamentals of all types of bankruptcy issues. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. The Seventh Edition treats in detail the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, coming to grips with the policy issues that have been before Congress for the past several years. It also features important new cases and other recent developments.

Complete Guide to Asset Protection Strategies

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Empowers Producers Against Moochers and Looters
Readable overview of a variety of asset protection techniques
Disappointing Regurgitation of Old Ideas

Complete Guide to Asset Protection Strategies
Mark Warda
Manufacturer: Galt Press
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ASIN: 1888699035

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With juries giving out million-dollar awards for such things as spilt coffee and harassment, anyone with assets must realize that what has taken a lifetime to earn can be lost in an instant. Our legal system has become a lottery in which lawyers finance claims against anyone with money. This book explains in simple language how anyone with any assets can best protect them against any type of claims.

After seeing how unfair the legal system has become, Attorney Mark Warda spent over a year and a half studying every type of asset protection plan available, from the homestead exemption to the offshore trust, from the most court-protected to the clearly illegal, and from the cost-free methods to the most expensive schemes. This book is the result of that research.

In simple language, it explains what works, what doesn't and why. It provides asset protection plans for every need, from the simple and cheap to the complex and expensive. It explains the three main ways to keep your assets out of reach of creditors and the five most important rules for being sure they work. It includes a summary of the law for each state and explains how to do more research to keep up to date.

If you own any assets you do not want to lose to a creditor, you need this book!

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Empowers Producers Against Moochers and Looters.......2006-02-27

From the aptly named Galt Press comes the Complete Guide to Asset Protection Strategies by Mark Warda, Attorney at Law. In modern America, no one remains safe from frivolous lawsuits. A person's entire life savings can vanish overnight thanks to a tort system that rewards envy and careless living. The American legal system authorizes tort lawyers to work on contingency fees with no penalty other than wasted time if they lose but huge payoffs if they win. This arrangement encourages the filing of frivolous lawsuits against easy yet wealthy targets. According to the author:

"The system is much more favorable to people filing suit than to people defending themselves. ... In England the loser must pay the winner's attorney fees, so only serious claims are filed. But here there is no risk to bringing a weak or even false claim. It is so expensive to defend a suit that often innocent people pay a large settlement rather than pay twice as much in attorney fees to win. ... England (and most other countries) forbid contingent fees for attorneys."

Producers work their entire lives, saving, investing, and building their net worth, only to have such a disaster strike. Under these conditions, the wise producer prepares for the worst by acquiring the knowledge he needs to protect his assets and then acting accordingly. This book offers such knowledge.

Warda divides his book into six sections:

1. Overview of Asset Protection Planning
2. Shielding Yourself Against Claims
3. Protecting Property in Your Name
4. Taking Property Out of Your Name
5. When Disaster Strikes
6. Your Immediate Action Plan

In total, 51 chapters articulate the content of these six powerful parts of an overall asset protection plan. In addition, Warda includes two appendices that delineate asset exemptions by state as well as offer camera-ready legal forms to help the reader to "cover his assets."

Whether you currently own your own business or work for an employer, whether you find yourself currently single or married, parenting or childfree, wealthy or poor, you need to make plans now to accumulate, title and protect your assets. Doing so can literally allow you to retain control and use of large portions of your wealth even if, as a last resort, you declare bankruptcy. According to Warda:

"Some have said that bankruptcy is too easy and that people with millions of dollars in exempt assets are abusing the system. I dare say that people who are being awarded millions of dollars for such things as "emotional damages" by using psychological profiles of jurors are no less guilty of abusing the system. Your use of bankruptcy can cure the abuse of a creditor's misuse of the courts."

Producers, en garde! Begin now to defend your wealth against the looters and moochers who would snatch it from your coffers! Your assets will thank you for it.

Readable overview of a variety of asset protection techniques.......2005-11-08

Describes a number of asset protections strategies, and for the real estate owner, explains how to combine the strategies together to potently isolate your liabilities and defend your assets. Read together with his book on land trusts.

Disappointing Regurgitation of Old Ideas.......2004-10-23

I was very disappointed with this book, and only after reading it did I find out that Warda doesn't even practice in the area of asset protection, but instead just cranks out "self-help" type book (over 60, according to his own plug). The old phrase "Jack of All Trades, Master of None" seems to be particularly applicable to Mr. Warda's knowledge of asset protection, which translates into little more than a re-write of other (now outdated) works from last century. I guess you'll buy this if you want the entire Warda-on-everything collection, but take a pass if your specific interest is asset protection.

U.s. Healthcare Certificate of Need Sourcebook

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U.s. Healthcare Certificate of Need Sourcebook
Robert James Cimasi
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Bankruptcy Deadline Checklist, Third Edition

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Bankruptcy Deadline Checklist, Third Edition
Norman Pernick
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The Third Edition of the Bankruptcy Deadline Checklist is a very practical tool intended to be a quick reference guide to assist bankruptcy judges, attorneys, paralegals, credit managers, collection agents, professors, law students and others participating in bankruptcy cases or study. The Checklist is organized by chapter of the Bankruptcy Code (i.e. 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 15), and, within each chapter by Code section, with additional sections covering those items typically needed upon the filing of a case, rules on adversary proceedings, appeals, and notices. This checklist is meant to be a list of all of the potential deadlines in a case.

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Bankruptcy and Insolvency Taxation
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The thousands of mergers, acquisitions, and start-ups that have characterized the past ten years of business have created an increasing number of corporations in financial trouble: specifically, a shortage of venture capital or quick cash. Consequently, bankruptcy protection is now viewed as a strategic move to protect corporations from their creditors and allow them to reorganize. Bankruptcy and Insolvency Taxation, Third Edition provides the answers to the questions financial managers will have on the tax aspects of the "bankruptcy strategy."

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Accounting, Volume 1, Practice and Procedure, 6th Edition

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Considered the standard reference in the field of bankruptcy accounting, this two-volume set combines accounting, finance, tax and legal issues in an easy-to-understand resource. This updated and expanded edition contains major changes to the Bankruptcy Code and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, and discusses the release of AICPA's SOP 90-7 with examples regarding the complications of applying it. Features new sections on business valuations, debtor-in-possession and post-petition financing. Volume 2 provides a unique collection of forms and exhibits and has been extensively revised to be more user-friendly with checklists and discussions to accompany the scores of sample documents and authentic exhibits. Supplemented annually.

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