Automatic Stay: Why Can’t I Just Keep Collecting on Pre-Bankruptcy Claims? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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Troutman Pepper's Creditor’s Rights Toolkit is a series that provides practical insights to help creditors confront the challenges of commercial bankruptcy.

When an individual or company files for bankruptcy, a statutory injunction called the “automatic stay” immediately comes into effect. The automatic stay is intended to protect the debtor and the property of its bankruptcy estate from litigation and other creditor action, while the bankruptcy case plays out.

This article briefly explains the “automatic stay” in a bankruptcy case.

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