bankruptcy judge
Debt court official
A bankruptcy judge is a federal judicial officer who presides over bankruptcy cases—proceedings where individuals or businesses seek legal relief from debts they cannot pay.
Unlike other federal judges, bankruptcy judges are appointed by circuit courts for renewable fourteen-year terms rather than receiving lifetime appointments.
They handle everything from personal debt restructuring to massive corporate reorganizations: The bankruptcy judge approved the airline's restructuring plan.
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- financial ruinComplete loss of wealth
- Chapter 7Debt elimination process
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
jurisdiction · discharge · fresh start · debt relief · credit counseling · repossession · debtor · Chapter 11 · magistrate · creditor · reorganization · liquidation · trustee · means test · ruling · arbiter · discretion · default
- judgesmagistrate, magistrates, jurist, chief justice, justice of the peace
- judiciaryjustices, magistrates, chief justice, supreme courts, judicial appointments
- insolvencyinsolvency, liquidation, creditors, liquidator, trustee
- insolvency professionalsliquidator, administrator, examiner
- legal professionalslawyer, attorney, barrister, solicitor, counsel
- Federal Officialscabinet secretary, cabinet member, attorney general, secretary of state, secretary of defense
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