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Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those.

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.