Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6076686

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For decades low-income families have relied on the filing of individual income tax returns to claim critical social welfare benefits in the form of refundable tax credits, most notably the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. But what happens to those families when the social safety net is not enough to meet their financial obligations, and they must seek a fresh start by filing for bankruptcy?

Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6135608

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Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5253527 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5253527

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In Reid v. Rodriguez , the Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina dismissed, without prejudice, a pro se Chapter 7 debtor’s adversary proceeding against her landlord, holding that mandatory abstention under 28 U.S.C. § 1334(c)(2) applied—and that even if it did not, permissive abstention clearly would.

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Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6023874 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6023874

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In State ex rel. Jackson v.

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