It provided for fast proceedings, encouraged debtors to reschedule their obligations rather than liquidate and helped creditors recover their claims against bankrupt estates. The 1994 Act also created the National Bankruptcy Commission, charged with investigating further modifications of the bankruptcy law. Latter laws, however, disregarded many of the Commission's recommendations. In April 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Many experts consider this the most extensive rework of the U.S. bankruptcy law since 1978. The most important changes introduced in this Act concern individual bankruptcy cases, small business bankruptcies and cross-border insolvency cases (ABC Amega, Jackson).

II General Concept

Bankruptcy is governed by the Bankruptcy Code, which became effective in 1978 (Empowerment Zone 2007). It was amended in 1994 and then in 2005. The 2005 amendments formed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 or BAPCPA. This Act...
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