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Title 11 of the United States Code, also known as the United States Bankruptcy Code, is the source of bankruptcy law in the United States Code.^[1]

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Chapters[edit]

Title 11 is subdivided into nine chapters. It used to include more chapters, but some of them have since been repealed in their entirety. The nine chapters are:^[2]

• Chapter 1: General Provisions
• Chapter 3: Case Administration
• Chapter 5: Creditors, the Debtor and the Estate
• Chapter 7: Liquidation
• Chapter 9: Adjustment of Debts of a Municipality
• Chapter 11: Reorganization
• Chapter 12: Adjustment of Debts of a Family Farmer or Fisherman with Regular Annual Income
• Chapter 13: Adjustment of Debts of an Individual with Regular Income
• Chapter 15: Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

United States Bankruptcy Code; 2019 Edition, Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd., 2019, ISBN 9781640020542

External links[edit]

• United States Bankruptcy Code via usbankruptcycode.org
• U.S. Code Title 11, via United States Government Publishing Office
• U.S. Code Title 11, via Cornell University