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American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis is a multi-method interdisciplinary team working under the Bass Connections project within Duke University. Over the past two years, this student-faculty undertaking has explored the state-level dynamics leading up to the 2008 Crisis.
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Preparing for the Post-COVID Resurgence of Home Mortgage Modifications
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.
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:
There are several protections in bankruptcy, particularly in North Carolina, that allow people to keep their entire settlement from various legal and administrative proceedings. This includes all Social Security benefits, Worker's Compensation, and Personal Injury awards, regardless of the amount. This is because such amounts are meant to help provide for the injured or disabled person for the future and not for their past creditors.
A drawing of the cuneiform transcription of a debt cancellation (amargi law) by Enmetena , ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, c. 2400 BC, basically the first known bankruptcy discharge. (Original in the Louvre.) By Lynn Yost.