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The new bankruptcy law has provisions that make it harder for the people in debt to file bankruptcy. You probably won't lose any sleep over people who abused bankruptcy, but there are people who lose jobs or have uninsured medical expenses who the new law hurts.

You are required to do credit counseling within six months of filing your bankruptcy petition.

There are new residency requirements. Under the old bankruptcy law, the amount of equity in your house protected from creditors was set by the state where you filed. Under the new bankruptcy law, if you live in a state for less than two years and it has a better exemption than where you lived previously, you can't use the more favorable exemption. If you bought your house less than 40 months (that's three and a quarter years) before filing bankruptcy, or violated securities laws, or have been found guilty of certain criminal conduct, you can only exempt up to $125,000 regardless of a state's exemption. Under the new law, if information provided in your case is found to be inaccurate, the attorney is subject to various fines and fees. If you can find an attorney willing to take your bankruptcy case, it is going to cost you more because of the time and effort it takes the attorney to verify your information.

If you do find an attorney willing to file, it will cost you a lot more.

It is clear from the changes mentioned here that it's going to be more difficult and costlier to file bankruptcy no matter what chapter you use to file. There may eventually be some modifications in the law if it becomes evident it is causing more problems than it solves.

If you are allowed to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, there are changes in how your personal property is valued. That meant most, if not all your personal property would fall within the exempt property categories of most states.

Under the new bankruptcy law, you must value your property it the price it would cost to replace it retail, taking into account its age and condition.

Also, under the old bankruptcy rules, the exempt personal property you could keep under chapter 7 was determined by the laws of the state where you lived if you resided in the state for at leas three months. Otherwise you must use the exemptions of the state where you used to live.

More people will be forced to use chapter 13 bankruptcy under the new law.

Chapter 13 bankruptcy required that you devote all your disposable income to repaying debts. That part hasn't changed, but how you calculate your disposable income has. Then, instead of subtracting your actual expenses, you use allowed expense amounts set by the IRS. The amount of 'disposable income' left may be more than what you have to spare every month.

Under the old law, if your bankruptcy case was dismissed for any reason and you still couldn't pay your bills, it wasn't much of an issue to refile. The new law limits debt relief if you are filing after a prior case was dismissed. Even if the attorney will not take you on as a client to file bankruptcy, they may be willing to give you legal advice.



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