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Collier Family Law and the Bankruptcy Code

For both the general practitioner and the matrimonial specialist, a comprehensive, ...


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Publisher :Matthew Bender
Format: 1 Volume; Looseleaf; updated with revisions , BOOK
ISBN: 9780820520308
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    For both the general practitioner and the matrimonial specialist, a comprehensive, practice-oriented guide to the impact of bankruptcy on family law issues. Examines the Bankruptcy Code with emphasis on provisions directly related to family law.

    Coverage includes:

  • Overview of the bankruptcy process
  • Overlap of bankruptcy court jurisdiction and state family court jurisdiction
  • Determining the debtor's interest in marital property
  • Special issues involving community property
  • Effects of Chapter 13 on current alimony and support obligations and on modification and enforcement of support obligations
  • Effect of the automatic stay on on-going family court actions

    First published in 1991.

    1 Volume; Looseleaf; updated with revisions.

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    Sommer, Henry J.


    HENRY J. SOMMER is a leading authority on consumer bankruptcy law and has litigated many major cases involving bankruptcy, consumer law, civil rights and other issues. He is the Supervising Attorney at the pro bono Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia and formerly served as the head of the Consumer Law Project at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia. Mr. Sommer has also served as a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

    Together with Alan N. Resnick, Mr. Sommer serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and the Collier product line.

    Mr. Sommer is the author of Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide (Matthew Bender), Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice (Nat'l Consumer Law Center), Consumer Bankruptcy (Wiley) and numerous articles on bankruptcy law. He is co-author of Collier Family Law and the Bankruptcy Code (Matthew Bender), Editor of Collier Bankruptcy Manual (Matthew Bender 3d ed. rev.) and a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law (Matthew Bender).

    From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Sommer was a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has testified on many occasions before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as well as the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, on bankruptcy and consumer law issues and has appeared as a bankruptcy expert on national and local television and radio shows. He has served on the faculty of numerous continuing legal education programs, including those presented by the Federal Judicial Center, NYU Law School, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, the Executive Office of U.S. Trustees, ALI-ABA, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the ABA Family Law Section.

    Mr. Sommer is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the National Bankruptcy Conference, for which he served as Reporter for the Bankruptcy Code Review Project's Working Group on Individual Debtors. In addition, he is an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He currently serves as the President of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and Vice President of the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education. He is the former Chair of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council.

    Mr. Sommer was the first recipient of the National Consumer Law Center's Vern Countryman Consumer Law Award. He received his legal education from Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude).

    McGarity,Dee Honorable Margaret


    Margaret Dee McGarity has been a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 1987, having been appointed for a fourteen year term. Judge McGarity was in private practice before her appointment, concentrating primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, family law and marital property, and she served on the panel of Chapter 7 trustees.

    Judge McGarity is a frequent lecturer on various marital property and bankruptcy related topics, especially on the interrelationships between family law and the Bankruptcy Code, having participated in seminars sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, American Bankruptcy Institute, State Bar of Wisconsin, Supreme Court of Wisconsin (Judicial Education Division), National Child Support Enforcement Association, National Judicial College, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and various bar associations, among others. She is a co-author of Christiansen, Haberman, Haydon, Kinnamon, McGarity and Wilcox, Marital Property Law in Wisconsin (State Bar of Wis. 1984, 2d ed. 1986, Supp. 1992), a three volume treatise on Wisconsin¿s community property laws. She is also the author of articles published by the ABA Journal, NAB Talk, NACTT Quarterly and other publications dealing with the practical aspects of bankruptcy practice.

    She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Emory University, 1969, and a 1974 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, American Bankruptcy Institute, National Association of Women Judges, the American College of Bankruptcy, and the Thomas E. Fairchild Inn, AIC.

    Resnick, Alan N.


    ALAN N. RESNICK is the Benjamin Weintraub Distinguished Professor of Bankruptcy Law at Hofstra University School of Law, in Hempstead, New York. Professor Resnick, who has taught for more than 25 years, is a nationally recognized authority on bankruptcy law.

    Together with Henry J. Sommer, Professor Resnick serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Collier on Bankruptcy, 15th Edition Revised and the Collier product line.

    Professor Resnick is also Of Counsel to the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York City, where he regularly consults on bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring matters.

    Professor Resnick was appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve as Reporter to the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, a position he held from 1987 to 1999. He was a member of the Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2005. Professor Resnick also testified before congressional and National Bankruptcy Review Commission committees on various issues relating to bankruptcy legislation.

    Professor Resnick's writings have been cited in more than 150 judicial opinions, including opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the author of Bankruptcy Law Manual (5th ed. West) and was co-editor of Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978: A Legislative History (Wm. Hein). He has written numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law, including articles that have appeared in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Banking Law Journal, Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Rutgers Law Review and William & Mary Law Review. He also is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and educational programs. He has lectured at Federal Judicial Center seminars for bankruptcy judges, at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and at various bar association programs. Professor Resnick has been on the faculty of the annual New York University Workshop on Bankruptcy & Business Reorganization and the faculty of the Uniform Commercial Code Institute in Washington, D.C.

    Professor Resnick is an elected member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also an elected Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and from 1999 to 2005 served as that organization's Scholar-in-Residence. He received his legal education at Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.).

     

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