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Options In Consumer Bankruptcy: An American Perspective, Jean Braucher
Options In Consumer Bankruptcy: An American Perspective, Jean Braucher
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
In both the United States and Canada, a rapid increase in personal bankruptcies has led to demands for stricter laws to force more repayment by consumer debtors. Canada has already taken this step, while the United States may soon do so in response to the counterfactual claim that the problem is debtors with means using bankruptcy as "a method of financial planning." The author suggests that the real problem in both countries, however, is an increase in the ranks of the over-indebted. Bankruptcy is a symptom, signalling to creditors the need to reform themselves. The author concludes that if creditors …