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Bankruptcy Flashcards
About Bankruptcy on Brainscape
What is Bankruptcy?
There’s always been an important question that intrigues us whenever someone borrows money from us. “Are we gonna get it back?”
What happens when someone can’t pay his/her loans and debts? What can provide immediate relief from the efforts of certain creditors to collect payments? Well, there exist a system called bankruptcy. In the US, bankruptcy governs the duties and the rights of a debtor when he can’t pay to his creditors. It also oversees the remedies and the rights available to them.
Bankruptcy Law is concerned with the process of declaring bankruptcy, determining what and what cannot be done to pay off debts, and the consequences to both creditors and consumers/business owners.
Classes in this subject are typically offered to political science students and licensed lawyers, especially those who are studying for a Masters Degree in Law and Juris Doctors.
Jobs related to an education in Bankruptcy Law include Bankruptcy Lawyer (of course!), Legal and Paralegal Assistant, Hearing Officers, Legal Secretary, Office Assistant/Clerk, and Court Administrator, to name a few.
Learning Bankruptcy
Aside from doing lots of reading, one should understand the key concepts of bankruptcy law and federal jurisdiction. Like other law degrees, a course in bankruptcy law is notoriously challenging, yet for many students, the interest on this subject lies in the exceptional combination of interest in the subject and intellectual stimulation.
To make it through your study of Bankruptcy Law, you need some memorization skills to remember terminologies and procedures related to debt settlement, bankruptcy actions, and a lot more. Graduates of different law degree programs recommend the use of study tools (such as Brainscape!) to augment the learning process in the study of Bankruptcy Law.
Brainscape is an adaptive web and mobile platform. Here, you'll find hundreds of Bankruptcy Law classes, decks, and study cards. They are created by law school students, lecturers, experts, and Brainscape users (perhaps like you) who need study aids to optimize the learning process.
Whether you want to know what automatic stay does or how a case gets dismissed, you can learn it all in Brainscape! Also, through the Brainscape Portal app, you can make your own set of flashcards, and just study them on your phone.
Learn Faster in Brainscape
Brainscape can help you learn Bankruptcy Law effectively, with the use of cognitive science. The platform applies the principles of the cognitive theories to optimize the process of storing memories. Our methodology, called “Cognitive Based Repetition” (CBR), makes use of the three learning processes: Metacognition, Active Recall, and Spaced Repetition.
Experts have attested to the usefulness of these learning methods. And you can give it a try! Select classes that you like, download your flashcards, and enjoy studying!