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Required financial management education: BAPCPA’s one good thing

By Cathy Moran

Once again, a client told me that if she’d known before what she learned in the financial management class required to get her bankruptcy discharge, she probably wouldn’t have needed bankruptcy in the first place.

Pretty strong words, from someone who admitted that she approached the required class with low expectations.

She announced that she intended to get her child and her step children to watch the class as well, so they go out into the financial world well prepared to deal with money and credit.

The bankruptcy “reform” act of 2005 did little good for debtors or bankruptcy law or practice, but debtor education is a winner.

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About Cathy Moran

I'm a veteran bankruptcy lawyer and consumer advocate in California's Silicon Valley. I write, teach, and speak in the hopes of expanding understanding of how bankruptcy can make life better in a family's future.

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