ABI’s 19th Annual Winter Leadership Conference: Committee Educational Session
Bankruptcy Taxation/Consumer Bankruptcy (joint committee session)
The committee will meet for a joint session with the Bankruptcy Taxation committee on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. to discuss Tax Issues in Consumer Bankruptcy.
Panel members: Ken C. Weil (Seattle), Henry E. Hildebrand (Lassiter, Tidwell, Davis, Keller & Hogan PLLC; Nashville, Tenn.) Willis Douglas (U.S. DOJ, C.D. Calif.).
60/60 Plans: Are Consumers Being Duped?
by: Raymond P. Bell, Jr.
Creditors Interchange Receivables Management LLC; Abington, Pa.
The volume of critics and supporters of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) has finally begun to settle down. There is an emerging issue that several national associations of debt and credit counseling agencies are possibly endorsing as a marketing tool for their membership. Now lawyers are joining the arena of a particular section in the law and using part of it to entice consumers to realize the light at the end of the tunnel of debt. However, that light can be a locomotive coming the other way.
Writers Needed for Consumer Committee E-newsletter
The committee is looking for writers of consumer articles for the newsletter. We also are accepting consumer-topic submissions for the ABI Journal. Anyone interested in contributing to the committee newsletter or Journal should contact Alane Becket (abecket@becket-lee.com) or Carolyn Kanon (ckanon@abiworld.org).