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New Law
CONGRESS PASSES NEW BANKRUPTCY LAW
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Key Features of Bankruptcy Legislation
 Sets a new means test for measuring a debtor's ability to repay.
 Require people filing for bankruptcy to pay for credit counseling.
 Give top priority to a spouse's claims for child support among creditors' claims on a debtor in bankruptcy.
 Allow for special accommodations for active-duty service members, low-income veterans and those with serious medical conditions in the new income test for bankruptcy applicants.
 Restrict a state's homestead exemption to $125,000 if the person in bankruptcy bought his or her residence less than three years and four months before filing.
 Give Wall Street investment firms the right to work for a company both before and after it files for bankruptcy, a provision opposed by Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson.
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