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Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide

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    A transaction-based guide to consumer bankruptcy for the bankruptcy practitioner.

    Your Complete Guide to Consumer Bankruptcy Practice

    Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Pracice Guide, assists you through all phases of a consumer bankruptcy case. From interviewing the client to filing an appeal, this transaction-based practice guide provides detailed discussions and step-by-step analysis of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy cases.

    Written by a renowned expert in the area of consumer bankruptcy, Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide is uniquely designed for solo practitioners and small consumer bankruptcy firms. Special features, such as "Practice Notes," "Planning Notes," "Illustrations" and "Warnings," appear in text boxes and highlight tactical and strategic information. "More information" text boxes provide cross-references to relevant portions of the book discussing issues in further detail.

    Collier Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Guide covers:

  • methods and strategies for interviewing the debtor
  • counseling the debtor about bankruptcy options
  • choosing the type of bankruptcy offering the greatest advantage to the client
  • agreements for and disclosure of attorney's fees
  • preparing and filing the forms, statements and schedules used in a typical bankruptcy case
  • enforcing the automatic and codebtor stay, as well as motions for relief from the stay
  • claiming and objecting to exemptions
  • preparing for the meeting of creditors
  • litigation procedures in bankruptcy cases

    First published in 1997, updated annually; one looseleaf volume.

    • Chapter 1 Overview of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
    Chapter 2 Overview of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
    Chapter 3 Interviewing the Debtor and Investigating the Facts
    Chapter 4 Counseling the Debtor About Bankruptcy Options
    Chapter 5 Attorney's Fees for Debtor's Counsel -- Agreements and Disclosure
    Chapter 6 Commencement of the Case
    Chapter 7 Appointment of Trustee and Trustee's Duties
    Chapter 8 Enforcing the Automatic Stay
    Chapter 9 The Codebtor Stay in Chapter 13
    Chapter 10 Motions for Relief from the Automatic Stay or Codebtor Stay
    Chapter 11 Turnover of Property Held by Third Parties
    Chapter 12 Utility Services in Bankruptcy Cases
    Chapter 13 Exemptions: Claiming and Objecting to Them
    Chapter 14 The Chapter 13 Plan
    Chapter 15 Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases
    Chapter 16 Meeting of Creditors
    Chapter 17 Avoiding Powers of the Trustee
    Chapter 18 Avoiding Powers of the Debtor
    Chapter 19 Filing and Objecting to Proofs of Claims
    Chapter 20 Confirmation of the Chapter 13 Plan
    Chapter 21 Compensation of Professionals
    Chapter 22 Modification of Plan After Confirmation
    Chapter 23 Dismissal of Bankruptcy Cases
    Chapter 24 Conversion of Cases from One Chapter to Another
    Chapter 25 Redemption of Property in Chapter 7 Cases
    Chapter 26 Dischargeability of Debts
    Chapter 27 Reaffirmation of Debts
    Chapter 28 Abandonment of Property
    Chapter 29 Obtaining a Discharge
    Chapter 30 Protections From Discrimination Against Bankruptcy Debtors
    Chapter 31 Reopening Bankruptcy Cases
    Chapter 32 Litigation Procedures in Bankruptcy Cases
    Chapter 33 Appeals in Bankruptcy Cases

     

    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.).

    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).

     

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