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No you would be wrong. The only property the banks can touch even under chapter 7 are non-exempt ones like office building, office vehicle etc
LOL. It is not so. Exempt properties in most cases is tools one works with or a car to drive to work. Also go through how difficult they have made for anyone to hold on to any property even in the Exempt cases via Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
Exempt property[edit]
Although in theory all property of the debtor that is not excluded from the estate under the Bankruptcy Code becomes property of the estate (i.e., is automatically transferred from the debtor to the estate) at the time of commencement of a case, an individual debtor (not a partnership, corporation, etc.) may claim certain items of property as "exempt" and thereby keep those items (subject, however, to any valid liens or other encumbrances). An individual debtor may choose between a "federal" list of exemptions and the list of exemptions provided by the law of the state in which the debtor files the bankruptcy case unless the state in which the debtor files the bankruptcy case has enacted legislation prohibiting the debtor from choosing the exemptions on the federal list. Almost 40 states have done so. In states where the debtor is allowed to choose between the federal and state exemptions, the debtor has the opportunity to choose the exemptions that most fully benefit him or her and, in many cases, may convert at least some of his or her property from non-exempt form (e.g. cash) to exempt form (e.g. increased equity in a home created by using the cash to pay down a mortgage) prior to filing the bankruptcy case.
The exemption laws vary greatly from state to state. In some states, exempt property includes equity in a home or car, tools of the trade, and some personal effects. In other states an asset class such as tools of trade will not be exempt by virtue of its class except to the extent it is claimed under a more general exemption for personal property.
One major purpose of bankruptcy is to ensure orderly and reasonable management of debt. Thus, exemptions for personal effects are thought to prevent punitive seizures of items of little or no economic value (personal effects, personal care items, ordinary clothing), since this does not promote any desirable economic result. Similarly, tools of the trade may, depending on the available exemptions, be a permitted exemption as their continued possession allows the insolvent debtor to move forward into productive work as soon as possible.
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 placed pension plans not subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Actof 1974 (ERISA), like 457 and 403(b) plans, in the same status as ERISA qualified plans with respect to having exemption status akin to spendthrift trusts. SEP-IRAs and SIMPLEs still are outside federal protection and must rely on state law.[36]
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC News - What to expect if you go bankrupt
It has nothing to do wit HDI, its got everything to do with age and availability of human resources. The median age in Europe is 40, India is 25. Europe fertility is 1.6, India fertility is 2.2. This has resulted in the average retirement age in europe to raise to 62, in India it is 58.
Cmon, you are talking as if they are on verge of extinction. There is just a 4 year difference period in retirement age. They are not lacking in population considering between just North America and Europe, they have a population of 900 million and a median age of 40 is still not very old. Surely they can find all their talent within the hundreds of million youth in their own population if they have achieved the pinnacle of human development.
There is nothing special about QE, all Indian banks are underwritten by the Reserve Bank too.
Most Indian farmers get money at the interest rate of 3% a MONTH, not per annum . Most farmers don't even have a bank account and you are talking about farmer loans !!! Its only the Rich farmers and dual income rural families who get govt. loans and waivers.
Please. Any unreasonable QE results in inflation which is what the RBI governors have been warning us again and again and has fallen on deaf ears of the UPA2 govt which resulted in the worst inflation we have had.
We were talking about govt loans since you accused the govt of pushing them towards drinking pesticide by giving loans with exorbitant interest rate. Are you saying that the govt of India is giving out 3% per month loans here? From all the info I have farmers with even marginal lands can and do avail govt loans and they are the cheapest and get waived off rather frequently.
That would depend on the definition of "benefit of both of us". YOu have a choice of doing the chores yourself, she might not have an alternative career or choice. A shortage of choices makes compelling reason that eventually works in your favour. Have you seen the movie "chandni Bar" ? a old dancer is compelled to become a prostitute. That is what non availability of choice is all about.
I do not buy that. My maid could become a prostitute too, she chose not to. She chose to work in 6-7 different houses rather than find an easy way out. She has many other career options too as can be seen by the many women who are in various business enterprise from being the flower seller to the fruit seller to the fisher women. Or she could go back to her village and work on her 2 acre family farm.
My take is, NRI still cling to very many Indian beliefs and practices which make them a perpetual outsider in their land. No all of them may be manifested externally for economical reasons. However their only constant exposure to their fading link with the motherland remains their spouses. Even enemies who are forced to fight a common foe becomes friends. That is pretty much the case with NRI couples. Most of them do not have extended families in the US or Europe.
See first you asked me to cite non-exceptional cases, when given a bounty of non-exceptional cases, again you are off making excuses. I told you Indian culture is the reason for the low percentage of divorces earlier on and not any financial or lack of other opportunities. The reasons you cite should also have been the reason why all other expatriates in USA should have had low divorce rates, but that is not the case.
You have a Muslim cousin ?
Yup, I do.