Bankruptcy Issues for State Trial Court Judges (4th Edition)

by Michaela M. White (Editor)

Overview

This primer on the relationship of bankruptcy and state law was developed through a grant from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges specifically for an ABI educational program to help state trial court judges resolve the conflicts that arise between bankruptcy law and domestic relations, criminal restitution, jurisdiction and many other issues. Bankruptcy Issues for State Trial Court Judges, Fourth Edition covers the 2005 amendments to the Code, including concepts such as property of the estate, claims, bankruptcy stays and injunctions, dischargeability, domestic relations law, criminal proceedings and the structure of the bankruptcy court system.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015208580
Publisher:	American Bankruptcy Institute
Publication date:	08/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	150
File size:	408 KB

About the Author

Michaela M. White is a professor of law at Creighton University School of Law and has written extensively on consumer bankruptcy. She was one of the first recipients of a scholarship grant by the ABI Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund, which funded an empirical study of means testing, Taking the New Consumer Bankruptcy Model for a Test Drive: Means-Testing Real Chapter 7 Debtors, published in the Spring 1999 issue of the ABI Law Review. A grant from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges funded her empirical study of reaffirmation agreements, the results of which were published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Her other publications include When Worlds Collide: Bankruptcy and its Impact on Domestic Relations and Family Law (ABI, 4th ed. 2010); The Dog that Didn’t Bark: Domestic Support Obligations after BAPCPA, 41 Fam. L.Q. 229 (2007); The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: Evaluation of the Effects of Using IRS Expense Standards in Calculating a Debtor’s Disposable Income (2007) (for which she served as co-author); and Chapter 37, “Conversion and Dismissal,” in Collier Practice Guide (2006). Prof. White is the advisor to the National Association for Chapter 13 Trustees’ Academy and the editor of its e-zine, www.ConsiderChapter13.org. She has lectured extensively on bankruptcy for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Federal Judicial Center and ABI.