The Norton Bankruptcy Library

• Court organization and powers
• Administration and administrative powers
• Claims and distributions to creditors
• Debtor's duties and benefits
• Tax consequences
• Litigation aspects of bankruptcy
• Interrelation of bankruptcy with related laws
• Fully annotated Model Forms sets
• More than 500 carefully annotated forms:
  • Selected Practice Forms, from actual practice situations
  • Official Bankruptcy Forms prescribed by the Judicial Conference of the United States
  • A.O. Director's Forms, with guidance on their effective use

What's new in Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, 3d ...

• Updated with full coverage of BAPCPA and emerging caselaw
• Easier-to-locate analysis organized by Code section and by topic
• Chapters organized more distinctly into two parts:
  • First part: chapters discussing sections of the Bankruptcy Code, presented in approximately the same sequence as the Bankruptcy Code (for Code-based research)
  • Second part: chapters addressing bankruptcy-related, topical subjects (for topical research)
• Treatment of particular Bankruptcy Code sections and Bankruptcy Rules identified more routinely in the chapter's tables of contents (at the division, part, or section level as appropriate), both in print and on Westlaw®.
• Find by Code Section feature on Westlaw
• Offers a customized search template that lets you simply enter a Bankruptcy Code section number in a field, along with additional search criteria in separate fields, and pull up a list of responsive hits.
• Updates to Practice Materials (forms, checklists, flowcharts)
  • Practice materials relocated to appendices at the back of their related chapter, rather than placed in separate volumes
  • Flowcharts depicting typical procedural steps under each chapter of the Bankruptcy Code
• Updates to Code and Rules Volumes
  • Annotations of Significant Decisions appearing underneath each Code section and Rule feature bold jurisdictional identifiers, making it easier to locate cases by jurisdiction.
  • Official Procedural Forms have been added, in alphanumeric order, to Rules volume and pamphlet
• NEW! Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terms
  • Offers definitions and primary law references for terms, both those defined by the Bankruptcy Code and those widely used in bankruptcy practice.
• NEW! Publication-Wide Finding Aids

• Articles on a variety of bankruptcy topics
• Recent developments in international insolvency law

• Recognizing a deteriorating credit situation
• Complying with lender liability statutes
• Controlling the terms of the debtor-creditor relationship
• Avoiding creditor traps and pitfalls
• Avoiding problems at inception, in out-of-court workout, and in bankruptcy court
• Getting guidance to structure the debtor-creditor relationship
• Step-by-step assistance to solve problems when they occur

• When does adequate protection begin for secured creditors?
• Avoiding liability or contaminated real estate
• Conflicts of interest in bankruptcy representation
• Interim compensation and the routing holdback
• Real estate in bankruptcy: avoiding the trustee's avoidance powers
• The Copyright Act and bankruptcy: perfection, priorities and transfers
• Pension benefits in bankruptcy