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A Historical Account Of The Orderly Payment Of Debts Act Reference: Limiting Provincial Efforts To Protect Insolvent Debtors, Thomas Gw Telfer, Virginia Torrie
A Historical Account Of The Orderly Payment Of Debts Act Reference: Limiting Provincial Efforts To Protect Insolvent Debtors, Thomas Gw Telfer, Virginia Torrie
Dalhousie Law Journal
This paper analyzes the history of the Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act and the constitutional controversy that followed. The legislation sought to protect debtors by imposing restrictions on creditors. In 1960, the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta) ruled that the legislation was ultra vires on the basis that it interfered with the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The Orderly Payment of Debts Act reference is the capstone in a trilogy of cases in which provincial legislation was invalidated for encroaching upon the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The …
Tinjauan Hukum Penerapan Hak Mendahulu Utang Pajak Dalam Perkara Kepailitan Pt Industries Badja Garuda Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 37 Tahun 2004 Tentang Kepailitan Dan Penundaan Kewajiban Pembayaran Utang, Siti Fatimah Citra Nurislamiati
Tinjauan Hukum Penerapan Hak Mendahulu Utang Pajak Dalam Perkara Kepailitan Pt Industries Badja Garuda Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 37 Tahun 2004 Tentang Kepailitan Dan Penundaan Kewajiban Pembayaran Utang, Siti Fatimah Citra Nurislamiati
"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI
This paper discusses the application of pre-emptive rights over tax debt collection in bankruptcy disputes regulated in Article 41 paragraph (3) of Law Number 37 of 2004 concerning the Bankruptcy and Deferral of Debt Payment Obligations displayed by the Directorate General of Taxes. Tax debts outside the bankruptcy process for compulsory taxes are being filed for bankruptcy by requesting the Commercial Court to return all tax liabilities that would harm the interests of the country. In the event that a taxpayer has been declared bankrupt, the Directorate General of Taxes still has the right to overtake and is privileged, requesting …
Contract's Convert Meddlers, Sarah Winsberg
Contract's Convert Meddlers, Sarah Winsberg
Notre Dame Law Review
Scholars of contract law typically examine contracts as bargains between two parties. This approach elides an additional, key function of many contracts: to shape existing relationships to the satisfaction of a third party, often one more economically powerful than either of the two bargainers. Third-party litigants, especially creditors, have historically advocated for their own interests and interpretive paradigms so strongly that they have sometimes gained priority over the actual intentions of the two bargainers.
This Article recovers the story of how a group of frequent-flier third parties—mainly creditors of small businesses—shifted the rules of contracts between partners in early America. …
Hostile Restructurings, Diane L. Dick
Hostile Restructurings, Diane L. Dick
Washington Law Review
The conventional wisdom holds that out-of-court loan restructurings are mostly consensual and collaborative. But this is no longer accurate. Highly aggressive, nonconsensual restructuring transactions—what I call “hostile restructurings”—are becoming a common feature of the capital markets. Relying on hypertechnical interpretations of loan agreements, one increasingly popular hostile restructuring method involves issuing new debt that enjoys higher priority than the existing debt; another involves transferring the most valuable collateral away from existing lenders to secure new borrowing.
These transactions are distinguishable from normal out-of-court restructurings by their use of coercive tactics to overcome not only the traditional minority lender holdout problem, …
The Future Of Insolvency Law In A Post-Pandemic World, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
The Future Of Insolvency Law In A Post-Pandemic World, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The COVID-19 crisis has encouraged many countries to amend their insolvency laws. In most cases, these amendments took place temporarily – especially during the hibernation phase of the pandemic. In other countries, however, the pandemic has led to permanent changes in the insolvency legislation. More importantly, the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the insolvency reforms already existing in the political agenda of many countries, and it has encouraged other jurisdictions to reassess the desirability of their insolvency and restructuring frameworks. This article analyzes the current trends, reforms and policy discussions that are expected to reshape the future of insolvency law in …
Handcuffing Of A Bankrupt, Dr> Hussein Yousef Ghanayem
Handcuffing Of A Bankrupt, Dr> Hussein Yousef Ghanayem
UAEU Law Journal
Handcuffing of a bankrupt is the act of banning a person from administering, litigating or disposing of his personal property and assigning that to a trustee (administrator of bankruptcy). It comes forth in execution and pursuance of the judgement of declaration of bankruptcy.
In ancient days, the body of the debtor as well as his personal property were exposed to execution. He was sold or slaved, or his corpse was apportioned among his creditors. It was well known that " He who cannot pay with his purse pays with his skin”.
The object of handcuffing a bankrupt is twofold: (a) …
Pleas Of Joint Sureties, A Comparative Study, Dr. Mohammed Bendari
Pleas Of Joint Sureties, A Comparative Study, Dr. Mohammed Bendari
UAEU Law Journal
Joint suretyship has been playing a very important role nowadays. It has some advantages that do not exist in different types of suretyships. This search concerns with the Joint suretyship; definition, importance and all pleas relating to obligations through different applications. The study focuses as well on the pleas of the different sureties when they lose pensions, and all pleas relating to negligence of creditors. This search is a comparative one, it examines the aforementioned issue in Egyptian, French and Emiratian laws, it reaches some important results in this fiel
Bankruptcy & The Underwater Home: A Case For Real Property Redemption, David Sheinfeld
Bankruptcy & The Underwater Home: A Case For Real Property Redemption, David Sheinfeld
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code exists to satisfy the claims of creditors and preserve an economic “fresh start” for the debtor after bankruptcy. In exchange for surrendering her property to the trustee to have it monetized (i.e., sold), the debtor receives a discharge of her debts and an injunction against future creditor in personam actions to recover them. However, the in personam injunction is insufficient to protect consumer debtors who are in default on mortgages encumbering underwater homes because the creditor’s in rem rights remain; after the conclusion of the case, the creditor can continue foreclosure proceedings, which …
Death Is Certain But Probate Is Optional: How To Transfer Wealth And Dodge Creditors Using A Revocable Trust, Zackary C. Nehls
Death Is Certain But Probate Is Optional: How To Transfer Wealth And Dodge Creditors Using A Revocable Trust, Zackary C. Nehls
Saint Louis University Law Journal
This article explores the impact on creditors of two common methods of wealth transfer at death in the state of Missouri: the revocable inter vivos trust and the traditional probate estate administration process. In the former, the trustee will administer the property in the trust in accordance with its terms, thus circumventing the probate process for the assets placed in the trust. In the latter, a personal representative is appointed to manage the decedent’s final affairs through the probate courts in accordance with probate rules. The trustee and the personal representative play very similar roles but are held to different …
The Low Usage Of Bankruptcy Procedures: A Cultural Problem? Lessons From Spain, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez
The Low Usage Of Bankruptcy Procedures: A Cultural Problem? Lessons From Spain, Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
While filing for bankruptcy does not seem appealing for any debtor regardless of the jurisdiction, the reluctance to use the bankruptcy system varies across countries. This article explores the underlying reasons and economic effects of the low usage of bankruptcy procedures in Spain, where the rate of business bankruptcies is one of the lowest in the world. Some authors have argued that the low usage of bankruptcy procedures in Spain is due to a “cultural” problem faced by Spanish entrepreneurs. According to this hypothesis, the lack of a “bankruptcy culture” makes Spanish entrepreneurs afraid to use the bankruptcy system. In …
Bank Resolution And Creditor Distribution: The Tension Shaping Global Banking – Part I: “External And Intra-Group Funding” And “Ex Ante Planning V. Ex Post Execution” Dimensions*, David Ramos, Javier Solana
Bank Resolution And Creditor Distribution: The Tension Shaping Global Banking – Part I: “External And Intra-Group Funding” And “Ex Ante Planning V. Ex Post Execution” Dimensions*, David Ramos, Javier Solana
University of Miami Business Law Review
Banking has drastically changed since the 2007-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath. Of all the reforms that impinge upon the ability of global banks to run their business, none is more consequential than the new frameworks on bank resolution, which try to end “too-big-to-fail.” Yet bank resolution’s “macro” goals, such as systemic stability, limitation of contagion, and avoidance of moral hazard, run in the face of insolvency law and the more “micro” principles underpinning it. Among the latter, none is more pervasive than the need for fairness between creditors, and between (and within) creditor classes, enshrined in the ranking and …
Domestic Asset Protection Trusts: Ushering In The Klackaba Era, Cheyenne Vankirk
Domestic Asset Protection Trusts: Ushering In The Klackaba Era, Cheyenne Vankirk
Seattle University Law Review
The growth in the U.S. economy has allowed Americans to increase their savings--but how? A novel approach has emerged in seventeen states: domestic asset product trusts (DAPTs). DAPTs are self-settled spindthrift trusts that allow the settlor to retain a beneficial interest in the trust while removing it from the reach of future creditors. Through the lens of the favorable ruling in Klackaba v. Nelson, this Note addresses why DAPTs should be regarded as an effective method of protecting a settlor’s money and argue for more states to follow suit.
Venezuela Undermines Gold Miner Crystallex's Attempts To Recover On Its Icsid Award, Sam Wesson
Venezuela Undermines Gold Miner Crystallex's Attempts To Recover On Its Icsid Award, Sam Wesson
Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fifty Years After The Consumer Credit Protection Act: The High Price Of Wage Garnishment, Faith Mullen
Fifty Years After The Consumer Credit Protection Act: The High Price Of Wage Garnishment, Faith Mullen
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Milking The Estate, David R. Hague
Milking The Estate, David R. Hague
Faculty Articles
Recent Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases are exposing a widespread problem. Chapter 7 trustees are retaining their own law firms to represent them and then in clear breach of their fiduciary duties to creditors-requesting illegitimate legal fees to be paid by the estate. This practice is immoral and particularly harmful to creditors. Indeed, every dollar paid to the trustee and his firm is a dollar that will not be distributed to creditors. The Bankruptcy Code, remarkably, allows a trustee to retain his own law firm to represent him in his capacity as a trustee. But this inherently conflicted arrangement is not …
Bankruptcy Fiduciary Duties In The World Of Claims Trading, John A.E. Pottow
Bankruptcy Fiduciary Duties In The World Of Claims Trading, John A.E. Pottow
Articles
In earlier work, I explored the role of fiduciary duties in the bankruptcy trustee's administration of a debtor's estate, noting the absence of any explicit demarcation of those duties in the Bankruptcy Code. In this piece, I report the highlights of that analysis and see to what extent (if any) fiduciary duties can inform policy prescriptions for the issue of bankruptcy claims trading, colorfully referred to by some as the world of "bankruptcy M&A." My initial take is pessimistic. Fiduciary duties, at least as traditionally conceived in bankruptcy, are unlikely to provide much help. But there is still a source …
The Limited Duties Of Lawyers To Protect The Funds And Property Of Nonclients, Vincent R. Johnson
The Limited Duties Of Lawyers To Protect The Funds And Property Of Nonclients, Vincent R. Johnson
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
Issues arise daily in law practice about the duties owed by lawyers to nonclients with respect to funds or property entrusted to them. In resolving those issues, care must be exercised when interpreting state versions of Model Rule 1.15, the American Bar Association’s pattern ethics rule on safekeeping of funds and property. Otherwise, a lawyer’s duties to third persons may too readily encroach on the performance of obligations owed to clients, as well as on the legitimate interests of lawyers themselves.
As numerous authorities have recognized, lawyers are obliged to protect the property interests of third persons only if they …
Discretionary Trusts: An Update, Richard C. Ausness
Discretionary Trusts: An Update, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
In the past, settlors tended to limit a trustee’s discretion by setting forth a specific formula for the distribution of trust assets. Nowadays, however, settlors often prefer to vest more discretion in their trustees. This is partly due to the fact that beneficiaries tend to live longer and, therefore, trusts inevitably last longer, thereby requiring trustees to respond to changing conditions. In addition, settlors often believe that vesting increased discretion on the part of trustees will discourage beneficiaries from bringing expensive and disruptive challenges to their decisions.
Nevertheless, the trend toward increased discretion is not without its problems. First of …
Rethinking Corporate Governance For A Bondholder Financed, Systemically Risky World, Steven L. Schwarcz
Rethinking Corporate Governance For A Bondholder Financed, Systemically Risky World, Steven L. Schwarcz
Faculty Scholarship
This Article makes two arguments that, combined, demonstrate an important synergy: first, including bondholders in corporate governance could help to reduce systemic risk because bondholders are more risk averse than shareholders; second, corporate governance should include bondholders because bonds now dwarf equity as a source of corporate financing and bond prices are increasingly tied to firm performance.
The European Company, Pieter Sanders
The European Company, Pieter Sanders
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Ten Years After Consumer Bankruptcy Reform In The United States: A Decade Of Diminishing Hope And Fairness, Robert J. Landry Iii
Ten Years After Consumer Bankruptcy Reform In The United States: A Decade Of Diminishing Hope And Fairness, Robert J. Landry Iii
Catholic University Law Review
The tenth anniversary of the effective date of Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (Reform Act), the largest reform to the consumer bankruptcy in the United States in a quarter of a century, will be marked in October of 2015. Prior to, and since its passage, scores of scholars have theorized about the impact of the Reform Act. The vast majority of research since its passage shows that the Reform Act has not had a long-term impact on filing rates. With this backdrop, the paper explores how the virtues of fairness for creditors and hope for individuals …
Business Insolvency And The Irish Debt Crisis, Paul B. Lewis
Business Insolvency And The Irish Debt Crisis, Paul B. Lewis
Paul Lewis
No abstract provided.
The Overstated Absolute Priority Rule, Stephen J. Lubben
The Overstated Absolute Priority Rule, Stephen J. Lubben
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Chapter 11 Shapeshifters, Lindsey Simon
Chapter 11 Shapeshifters, Lindsey Simon
Scholarly Works
Logic and equity would seem to demand that when administrative agencies are creditors to a bankrupt debtor, they should have the same status as other creditors. But a creditor agency retains its regulatory authority over the debtor, permitting it to continue with agency business such as conducting enforcement proceedings and awarding licenses. As a result, though bankruptcy law and policy both strongly support equal distribution of the estate, administrative agencies have been able to circumvent these goals through the use of “shapeshifting” behaviors. This Article evaluates two dangerous shapeshifting scenarios:
(1) where the agency avoids the limitations of creditor status …
Not So Secure: Should Social Security Benefits Be Considered In The Good Faith Analysis Under 11 U.S.C. § 1325(A)(3)?, Casey J. Davis
Not So Secure: Should Social Security Benefits Be Considered In The Good Faith Analysis Under 11 U.S.C. § 1325(A)(3)?, Casey J. Davis
Akron Law Review
Part II of this Comment provides background information about Chapter 13 bankruptcy. This section is important because it provides a foundation for the remainder of this Comment. Part III of this Comment explores the source of this split and how the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (“BAPCPA”) has affected this issue. Within Part III, this Comment will discuss why Congress enacted BAPCPA, the largest overhaul of bankruptcy law since its origin, and why BAPCPA did not affect the good faith requirement under § 1325(a)(3) even though BAPCPA drastically altered bankruptcy law. In addition, this section also …
A Sea Change In Creditor Priorities, Kristen Van De Biezenbos
A Sea Change In Creditor Priorities, Kristen Van De Biezenbos
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article argues that the operation of maritime law undermines a primary justification for creditor priorities under U.S. law. Under current law, when a debtor becomes insolvent, its secured creditors will be paid the full amount of their debt to the extent of their security interest, even if that leaves nothing to pay unsecured creditors. This is controversial with respect to involuntary unsecured creditors, particularly those with tort claims against the debtor. Defenders of this scheme of priorities have argued that allowing greater priority to involuntary creditors would hinder the availability or increase the cost of credit. However, involuntary creditors …
Creditors And Debt Governance, Charles K. Whitehead
Creditors And Debt Governance, Charles K. Whitehead
Charles K Whitehead
This chapter from the book Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law (Claire Hill & Brett McDonnell, eds.), provides an introduction to the law and economic theory relating to creditors and debt governance. The chapter begins with a look at the traditional role of debt, focusing on the impact of debt on corporate governance and, in particular, the effect of an illiquid credit market on creditors’ reliance on covenants and monitoring. It then turns to changes in the private credit market and their effect on lending structure. Greater liquidity raises its own set of agency costs. In response, loans …
Gifting & The Absolute Priority Rule, Brianna Walsh
Gifting & The Absolute Priority Rule, Brianna Walsh
Bankruptcy Research Library
(Excerpt)
The absolute priority rule sets forth a hierarchical scheme for the distribution of proceeds obtained through liquidating the assets of a debtor. The scheme provides that property of an estate shall be distributed to secured creditors, then to administrative and priority unsecured creditors, then to unsecured creditors, and lastly to equity holders. Under Chapter 11, section 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii) for a dissenting class of impaired creditors, a plan is “fair and equitable” only if the allowed value of such creditors claims are paid in full, or the holder of any claim or equity that is junior to the dissenting creditors will …
Does Anyone Have “Actual Knowledge” Of What Effects The Cape Town Treaty Has Had On The Application Of Philko Aviation, Inc. V. Shacket?, Kaitlyn E. Schrick
Does Anyone Have “Actual Knowledge” Of What Effects The Cape Town Treaty Has Had On The Application Of Philko Aviation, Inc. V. Shacket?, Kaitlyn E. Schrick
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Victims Of Substantiated Child Abuse: Missouri’S New Reasonably Ascertainable Creditors, Alice Haseltine
Victims Of Substantiated Child Abuse: Missouri’S New Reasonably Ascertainable Creditors, Alice Haseltine
Missouri Law Review
A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Missouri, In re Austin, held that victims of substantiated child abuse are reasonably ascertainable creditors. The practical effect of Austin is to afford victims of substantiated child abuse an extra six months to file claims against the estate of his or her abuser. While this decision is a small victory for victims of sexual abuse, the facts in Austin raise controversial questions about whether the unique circumstances surrounding claims of childhood sexual abuse warrant an exception to the one-year claim bar against a decedent’s estate. This Note begins with an exploration of …