In well-off Utah, bankruptcy filings climb.

Byline: Steven Oberbeck

Oct. 9--Increasing numbers of Utahns trekked into U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Utah seeking relief from their debts during the first nine months of 2007.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Clerk David Sime reported that the number of Utahns who declared themselves insolvent through Sept. 30 increased 23 percent compared to the number of petitioners who filed during the same period a year ago.

Yet even with that increase in bankruptcy filings, Utah still is doing pretty well relative to many other areas of the country, Sime said.

Utah's bankruptcy numbers remain well behind the levels experienced prior to adoption of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and ...

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