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Know some benefits of bankruptcy
By Jakob Jelling

Bankruptcy is a state of a person or a firm unable to pay off the debts. In legal terms, bankruptcy refers to the settlement of liabilities of a person/organization, fully or in parts, who are in a state of not able to meet the incurred financial obligations. The purpose of such a settlement is to uniformly distribute the bankrupt's assets equitably among the creditors, and, to relieve the debtor from further liability (in most cases). In the US, bankruptcy is governed by a federal law adopted in 1898 and amended many times, as by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 and recently in the spring of 2005.

The two purposes of bankruptcy are

- To give creditors a fair share of the money that on...
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