Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice 2012: Includes Website

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.

If ordered through the publisher National Consumer Law Center, this treatise includes access to a companion website with the appendices, statutes, pleadings, primary sources and other practice aids. Search for documents by category or with a table of contents or various keyword search options. All documents can be downloaded, printed, and copy-pasted. Pleadings are also available in Word format. Web access for this title is free if ordered through NCLC and remains available as long as this title is kept current through NCLC.