Bankruptcy filings in Kansas followed the national downward trend and declined for the past year. Â There were 9648 bankruptcy cases filed in Kansas in the 12 months ending in June, a decline of 9.7%.
In Our Region
In the region, filings were down 10.9% in Colorado, 18.3% in New Mexico, 11.6% in northern Oklahoma, 19% in Nebraska and 16.2% in western Missouri.
For more detail, read Prof. Bob Lawless’s analysis on Credit Slips. Â Here is the press release: Â Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2012, totaled 1,311,602 petitions, 14 percent less than the 1,529,560 filed in the 12-month period ending June 30, 2011, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Business and Non-Business Filings
The majority of bankruptcy filings involve predominantly non-business debts. For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2012, non-business filings—where the debts are predominantly personal or consumer in nature—totaled 1,267,167, down 14 percent from the 1,477,426 nonbusiness bankruptcies filed in the 12-month period ending June 30, 2011.
Third Quarter of FY 2012
April, May, and June 2012 constituted the third quarter of the Judiciary’s 2012 fiscal year. The number of bankruptcies filed during those three months was 325,693, down 14 percent from the 379,790 filings in the same quarter of 2011.
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Kansas Bankruptcy Filings Fall
Posted on August 3, 2012 Written by
