Personal Bankruptcy Laws For Dummies, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-471-77380-1
Paperback
384 pages
January 2006
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Jim coauthored, with his brother John, Debt Free! Your Guide to Personal Bankruptcy Without Shame (Henry Holt, 1996) and two highly regarded books for lawyers: Discharging Marital Obligations in Bankruptcy (LRP, 1997) and Discharging Credit Card Debts in Bankruptcy (LRP, 1998).
In addition, Jim has published scores of articles for bankruptcy professionals and is frequently called upon to analyze and interpret the complicated provisions of the 2005 bankruptcy law. He was labeled the “online guru” by a national legal weekly because of his regular appearances on the Internet as an expert analyst on bankruptcy law. Jim also serves on the editorial board of the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Jim graduated from Niagara University and then earned his law degree from Memphis State University Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review and recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in the field of debtor-creditor relations. He filed his first consumer bankruptcy case shortly after graduating in 1975. Jim lives and practices in Eugene, Oregon.
John M. Caher is a legal journalist who has written about
law and the courts for most of his 25-year career.
Currently the Albany bureau chief for the New York Law
Journal, John previously was state editor and legal affairs
reporter for the Times Union of Albany, New York. His legal
reportage has won more than two dozen awards, including prestigious
honors from the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar
Association, the Erie County Bar Association, and the Associated
Press.
John coauthored, with his brother Jim, Debt Free! Your Guide to
Personal Bankruptcy Without Shame (Henry Holt, 1996). He is the
author of King of the Mountain: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of
Chief Judge Sol Wachtler (Prometheus Books, 1998). In addition,
John was the principal writer assisting former U.S. Treasury
Secretary William E. Simon in preparation of his memoirs. Mr.
Simon’s autobiography, A Time for Reflection, was
published in 2003 by Regnery.
John is a 1980 graduate of Utica College of Syracuse University,
where he received his bachelor’s degree in journalism, and a
1993 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he earned
a master’s degree in technical communications/graphics. John
lives in Clifton Park, New York.