Is Chapter 13 a viable alternative?

The Journal Record;  March 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Despite concerted efforts to encourage Chapter 13 bankruptcies over straight-line Chapter 7, this consumer repayment mechanism does exact...director. A hefty number, considering the 403,025 Chapter 13 petitions filed in 1997. Gerdano says that...

CHAPTER 12 PUTTING THE CLAMPS ON FARM LOANS

Post-Tribune (IN);  February 9, 1987 ;     700+ words ......FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Agribusiness Chapter 12, the bankruptcy provision created for...another option. Instead, farm lenders say Chapter 12 may be doing the opposite. Agricultural lenders say Chapter 12 has caused long-term loans for land...

CHAPTER 12 PROVISIONS

Post-Tribune (IN);  December 29, 1986 ;     351 words ......DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Chapter 12 does provide some viable alternatives...up to $1.5 million are eligible. Under Chapter 13, the limit was $450,000. Farmers must...of their debt. Farmers who have filed Chapter 11 or 13 can covert to Chapter 12 at the...

Consolidating Creditor Data in Chapter 13 Cases

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Today The number of claims administered by chapter 13 trustees has increased, leading to...in administering consumer claims. The chapter 13 trustees (acting through the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT)) have developed a...

PEO Chapter N celebrates centennial

Redlands Daily Facts;  November 11, 2005 ;     450 words ...The sorority's Chapter N, which was organized in Alhambra in...transferred to Redlands in 1996 REDLANDS Chapter N of the PEO Sisterhood, Redlands, celebrated...from the seven Redlands and Yucaipa area chapters gathered for the fall reciprocity meeting...

Chapter 13 Project: Little Paid to Unsecureds1

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......multi-district study of its kind, the Chapter 13 Project is an empirical study of the extent to which chapter 13 has fulfilled two of its principal...also describes the debtors who have used chapter 13. It also examines the relation between...

Chapter check-in: driven members bring two chapters back from the brink of...

Industrial Engineer;  July 1, 2003 ;     581 words ...Houston The Houston chapter is being celebrated for its recent resurrection. For three years the chapter had languished under red status, denoting little or no chapter activity. But rather than allowing the chapter to fade into oblivion, its remaining...

The uses and abuses of Chapter 11.

The Economist (US);  March 18, 1989 ;     700+ words ...The uses and abuses of Chapter 11 CHARLES LAMB, an eighteenth-century...which is owned by Texas Air, filed under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. Last week...does not mean going bust? The reason is Chapter 11. Many other countries' laws aim to...

Integration program at risk; School officials decry talk of cuts to...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......debating the merits of scrapping the state's Chapter 220 school integration program, school...those school officials. Getting rid of Chapter 220 would mark the end of the state's...financial impact. The fact of the matter is Chapter 220 aid is in essence property tax relief...

HOW CAN THIS BE!(more companies filing a second Chapter 11)

Business Credit;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Dealing With a Major Customer's Second Chapter 11 Filing After much negotiation, you...reclamation claim, as your major customer's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization is finally confirmed...chased by creditors and files a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy. How can this be? May a...

Bankruptcy by the numbers: Sources of variability in Chapter 13...

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......trustees and judges who work regularly with chapter 13 consumer cases understand the chapter's operation very well. The norms and practices...participants, who repeat their parts of the chapter 13 process hundreds if not thousands of times...

Individual Chapter 11s Really Do Work: Practical Considerations for...

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The focus of this article is chapter 11 proceedings for individual small business...109(e). Since the passage of BAPCPA in 2005, chapter 11 for the individual debtor has become a blend of chapter 13 and 11. While chapter 11 cases for an individual...

A comparative reading gains of African American students in a Chapter 1...

Reading Improvement;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The goal of Chapter I programs is to enable disadvantaged children...achieve grade level success as a result of their Chapter I reading supplementary participation. The reading gains of the Chapter I reading students (the treatment group) after...

The kindness of chapter 11; America's chapter 11 bankruptcy is too kind to...

The Economist (US);  May 25, 1991 ;     700+ words ......two choices-formal bankruptcy through chapter 11 of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act...rescheduling of their debts, known as a workout . Chapter 11 is not cheap-often lasting for years...California at Los Angeles finds firms choosing chapter 11 and workouts in roughly equal numbers...

What you need to know about Bankruptcy, Part 3: Chapter 13. (Legally...

Roofing Contractor;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...As we discussed in Part 1, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is commonly referred...of bankruptcy. The main goal of this chapter is to deal with the readjustment of...Debtor's Responsibilities Like other chapters in bankruptcy, the first step is for...