Comments on: where can i find a free downloadable bankruptcy law library? http://www.bankruptcy-help-resources.com/where-can-i-find-a-free-downloadable-bankruptcy-law-library/ Quick Answers to Bankruptcy Questions & Understand How Bankruptcy Laws Affect You Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Andy http://www.bankruptcy-help-resources.com/where-can-i-find-a-free-downloadable-bankruptcy-law-library/#comment-2 Andy Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:48:58 +0000 http://www.bankruptcy-help-resources.com/where-can-i-find-a-free-downloadable-bankruptcy-law-library/#comment-2 It's not free. You'd have to subscribe to Lexis/Nexis at $200 or so a month. But doing that wouldn't help you: you'd need to have had training as a lawyer or paralegal to know how to search. If you want a consumer education, get tho Nolo Press book on bankrupcy from your library: If you want a professional understanding, buy the NCLC book "Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice" Or visit your county law library and look for one of the treatises lawyers use. The main one -- a dozen or more volumes -- is Collier on Bankruptcy, edited by Morgan King, who also gives courses and writes other treatises for lawyers. See below. You can download judgments and matrials on specific cases -- but you can search only by the name of the debtor -- using PACER You have to register. It's not free to use: it costs 8 cents a page to view; judgments are supposed to be free (but sometimes you are charged anyway). It’s not free. You’d have to subscribe to Lexis/Nexis at $200 or so a month.

But doing that wouldn’t help you: you’d need to have had training as a lawyer or paralegal to know how to search.

If you want a consumer education, get tho Nolo Press book on bankrupcy from your library:

If you want a professional understanding, buy the NCLC book “Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice”

Or visit your county law library and look for one of the treatises lawyers use. The main one — a dozen or more volumes — is Collier on Bankruptcy, edited by Morgan King, who also gives courses and writes other treatises for lawyers. See below.

You can download judgments and matrials on specific cases — but you can search only by the name of the debtor — using PACER You have to register. It’s not free to use: it costs 8 cents a page to view; judgments are supposed to be free (but sometimes you are charged anyway).

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