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Determining Whether Property Is Necessary For An Effective Reorganization: A Proposal For The Use Of Empirical Research, Charles Shafer Jan 1990

Determining Whether Property Is Necessary For An Effective Reorganization: A Proposal For The Use Of Empirical Research, Charles Shafer

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The automatic stay is considered to be one of the most important provisions of the Bankruptcy Code for Chapter 11 debtors. It is the shield behind which the debtor may go about the process of reorganization using the mechanisms provided by the other sections of the Code. The stay permits a debtor the time to formulate a repayment or reorganization plan.

Resisting a challenge to the stay is, therefore, often crucial to the reorganizing debtor. By preventing the initiation or pursuit of legal action against a debtor, the stay allows the debtor to devote its limited time and resources to …