Doing business with a customer in the shadow of bankruptcy is risky. A hallmark of bankruptcy law is equal treatment of similarly-situated creditors. The Bankruptcy Code frowns upon a debtor who, ...

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This bankruptcy timing rule could determine whether you keep recent payments or lose them to creditors. Here's why.

Typically, in bankruptcy proceedings a creditor must return payments made shortly before the debtor filed for bankruptcy. At Monday’s argument in United States v. Miller, the justices were asked to ...

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When someone makes a payment to a creditor shortly before filing for bankruptcy, the Bankruptcy Code requires the creditor to return the funds. But whether those same obligations apply to the Internal ...

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US bankruptcy law is designed to promote and reconcile two core policy objectives: providing relief to financially distressed debtors and ensuring the equitable treatment of creditors vis-à-vis the ...

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