The New Bankruptcy Laws - Truth about the
unconstitutional new BK law changes. On April 20, 2005, George Bush
signed the new "Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act" into law.
Bankruptcy Abuse? Do you know anyone personally
who has abused the Bankruptcy laws, and are consumers really protected?
Or, should this new bankruptcy bill be called the "Abuse the Consumer
and Protect the Fraudulent Banks Act"?
We'll soon see...
In order to understand these unfair new bankruptcy
laws, and to help you see that you must avoid bankruptcy, lets cover
the original purpose of the BK laws.
According to U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, the primary
purpose of the old bankruptcy Chapter 7, bankruptcy Chapter 11 and
bankruptcy Chapter 13 laws were: 1) to give an honest debtor a "fresh
start" in life by relieving the debtor of most debts, and 2) to repay
banks and creditors in an orderly manner to the extent that the debtor
has property available for payment.
Apparently the primary purpose of the new credit
card bank BK laws is: 1) to repay banks and creditors in an orderly
manner to the extent that the debtor has property available for
payment.
However, with the new BK laws, giving an honest
debtor a "fresh start" in life by relieving the debtor of most debts
has been done away with.
The finance companies and credit card banks all
blame the necessity of the bankruptcy changes on the .003% of abusers
of the old bankruptcy laws.
Sponsors of the bill claim that most bankruptcy
personal cases involve irresponsible spenders who have shopped or
gambled their money away and now do not wish to pay their creditors so
the new BK legislation, will eliminate "filing bankruptcy for
convenience".
There is NOTHING further from the truth then these
claims alleged by the credit card banks and finance companies. And, as
you dig deeper into these pages, you'll see who's really abusing who in
America's credit, finance and banking game.
They claim that bankruptcy costs the credit card
banks billions of dollars each year and that those costs are passed on
to customers in the form of higher interest rates.
That of course would be true if the credit card
banks were actually lending any of their own money, or their customer's
deposited money. For more details, read our page a
history of money and banking secrets that banks don't want
published.
And, by making bankruptcy filings harder for those
with financial trouble, legislators say that more people will pay their
bills, the credit card companies will save billions of dollars, and the
resulting savings will be passed on to consumers in the form of lower
interest rates.
We've never ever heard of a credit card company
lowering interest rates voluntarily, and we know they never will.
New Bankruptcy Law Highlights
The key highlights of the credit card banks new
bankruptcy laws are:
The new bankruptcy laws apply a means test for
people filing bankruptcy. If a debtor has at least $100 per month left
over after an IRS determined monthly expense plan, (can you picture
that?) the debtor will be forced to file Chapter 13 and pay for five
years.
Just imagine life after bankruptcy now.
They will not be able to file Chapter 7 of the
Federal bankruptcy code, which would have eliminated all of their
unsecured debt.
There are no provisions in the bankruptcy law for
debt problems caused by job loss, illness or other traumatic events,
despite studies that show that these are the cause of most bankruptcy
cases.
Can you say Debt Slave?
With these new, credit card BK laws, attorneys are
now responsible for the accuracy of paperwork filed by their clients.
So in other words, your attorney must now search your dresser drawers
for those hidden family heirlooms.
This will no doubt result in fewer bankruptcy
attorneys, with the remaining ones raising their fees in order to cover
this additional liability.
With the new bankruptcy laws most consumers are
now completely unprotected from losing a job or having medical
problems. They can no longer start over by filing for bankruptcy
Chapter 7.
They will have less affordable help from capable
BK attorneys due to the new bankruptcy law liability stipulation.
Giving an honest debtor a "fresh start" in life by
relieving the debtor of most debts has been done away with completely
thanks to the new bankruptcy laws.
However an amazing discovery has been made that
you cannot miss learning about. Now that you must avoid bk as there is
no PROTECTION for consumers provided by the new Bankruptcy Abuse and
Consumer Protection Act if filing bankruptcy under the new bankruptcy
laws.
Article Source:
http://www.articlesbase.com/debt-consolidation-articles/new-
bankruptcy-laws-why-you-must-avoid-bankruptcy-now-22319.html About the Author
Mark A. Cella, Founder of the Federal Debt Relief
System. You
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