posted by Jason Kilborn
The list of countries with new personal insolvency laws continues to grow. Bloomberg noted today that the President of Kazakhstan had signed a new law setting out several procedures for relieving the debts of non-entrepreneur individuals (sole proprietors remain relegated to the existing law on rehabilitation and bankruptcy). The text of this 30 December 2022 law is here (in Russian only), and most of its provisions will become effective in 60 days, around March 1, 2023.
The structure of this law and its four pathways to relief are clearly inspired by the 2015 law of Kazakhstan’s northern neighbor. This indicates a continuing trend, as new personal insolvency laws are generally based on a model from the law of…
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