The Road Out of Debt: Bankruptcy and Other Solutions to Your Financial Problems

Acknowledgments

Without the assistance and support of many fantastic people, this book may have never come together. We would like to thank Meg Freeborn, Bill Falloon, Chris Gage, Tiffany Charbonier, and the other consummate professionals at John Wiley & Sons for their extraordinary editing, production, advice, recommendations, and endless patience.

Thanks also to David McCormick and his associates at McCormick & Williams for their superb representation; Professor Steve H. Nickles, Professor Jack Williams, Margaret M. Crouch, Molly Sharon, and Ann Fox for their generous support, outstanding review, and editorial analysis; Gerald P. Hendrick, Stuart Brown, Jim McGinley, Charlie Ognibene, John Hughes, Mary-Pat Cormier, Ed Bertozzi, Jean France, Glenn Pudelka, Jennifer O'Leary Cathell, Amy Halloran, Gina Carriuolo, Courtney Jones, Renee Evangelista, and countless other exceptional colleagues at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP for their help and guidance; my present and former colleagues, the bankruptcy judges of the District of Massachusetts: Carol J. Kenner, William C. Hillman, Henry J. Boroff, Joel B. Rosenthal, Robert Somma, Frank J. Bailey and Melvin S. Hoffman for their constant and unwavering support and friendship; and for their excellent illustrations, Nicolas A. Coppola and the staff at Corne Cartoons/Enroc Illustration Co. (www.enroc.com and www.corne.com/ar) and Maki and the staff at New Way Solutions (www.newwaysolutions.com).

Special thanks to Sharon whose love and encouragement ...