If you are reading this review, chances are you are in a very difficult situation. I recommend that you this book before making a decision.
Rating: 5 / 5

If you are facing this hard time in your life buy this book. It saved us more than $950.00 dollars.V.S paying an attorney.
Rating: 5 / 5

Better or not, though, it needs improvement.

There are a surprising number of typos for a second edition*, including numbers in the examples that conflict with those used in the explanatory text, but its problems only start there.

It’s badly organized. It seems like it was set up to reflect the progression of a very specific class. Issues aren’t dealt with in one place exhaustively, but touched on in several. If you’re using the book for end of semester review, or as a reference, this is frustrating because you can’t just turn to one place for a complete answer.

Explanations of bankruptcy concepts are necessarily tricky sometimes, but I’m not sure that excuses chestnuts like this one on page 239: “One aspect of feasibility is quite stringent, namely that the payments proposed under the plan must actually add up to enough money to make the payments proposed in the plan.” You can read that as many times as you like, but it’ll still be as assertion that X=X under the bankruptcy code.

The book’s most serious failings, though, is that it was clearly revised in a hurry to incorporate the 2005 Amendments. The speculative analysis of how the law was likely to develop after those changes was probably helpful in 2006, a year before this was published, but the rest of us would have been well served by an equally hurried effort to get a third edition out to encapsulate the actual case law. The cover’s promise that the book’s been “revised for the 2005 amendments” is misleading in 2009, when students should reasonably expect better than four year old speculations.

I’m giving it three stars because the bar for law school study aids is really low. This could actually be the best one on the topic.

* I appreciate that any review criticizing typos is sure to have at least six of them in it, so feel free to count
Rating: 3 / 5

The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy lays it out fairly simply. It broke everything down into easy 10-15 page chapters, used charts, and had mini quizzes at the end of every chapter, with an analysis of the correct and wrong answers. I just found it much more user friendly. I also found the explanations to be much, much clearer. Maybe I’m just bankruptcy-challenged, but I loved this guide and it really helped with my final exam.

I tried the Examples and Explanations guide to Bankruptcy at the same time I got this one — what a waste of money, with regard to the E&E. I like my supplements to be clear and easy to read. The E&E is more for people who want something in the beginning of the semester, and want to have an extra bit of reading and analysis with their reading. Just not my thing.
Rating: 5 / 5

DON’T bother w/ the full package the author tries to sell you. Most everything you will need is in this book. Also consider form letters which are edited. He doesn’t provide that (see how to make your credit sparkle) but does offer insights. A standard form letter edited will do or a basic credit repair software where all you have to do is enter info and print.

All in all a good book but don’t let the hype and overkill of the author move you to spend hundreds of dollars on seminars to full packages when this is all that’s really needed… just say no to the infomercial!
Rating: 5 / 5

The main point is you can use this type of analysis effectively and because most people in general equity investing don’t, it just might give you a bit more edge.
Rating: 5 / 5