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Questions about the fairness of the current credit reporting system have recently started to take new prominence with the National Consumer Law Center releasing a report The Credit Score Pandemic Paradox and Credit Invisibility and blog posts on Creditslips.org offering policy solutions in Addressing Credit Invisibility Through Federal Contracting Power.

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On September 23, 2019, Mouzon Bass, the president of Ebenconcepts, Inc., which was the Debtor's former employer, assigned to the Debtor a whole life insurance policy with a cash value of $814,917.00 in consideration for the Debtor's shares in Ebenconcepts. At that time, Ebenconcepts was the beneficiary of the whole life insurance policy.

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Copley v. United States involved a question at the intersection of tax law and bankruptcy law: can a debtor invoke bankruptcy exemption rules to shield an anticipated income tax refund from offset by the Internal Revenue Service? When the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals was presented with this question of first impression — a question that has divided bankruptcy courts in recent years — it held that the IRS right of offset prevails over the debtors’ right of exemption.

The American Board of Certification (ABC), a national organization dedicated to serving the public and improving the quality of the bar by certifying lawyers in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, elected new officers and board members at its annual meeting, which was held virtually on Dec. 7, 2020.

The ABC is pleased to welcome the following new members to its Board of Directors:

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