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June 16, 2012 10:12 AM Subscribe
Westlife singer Shane Filan has been declared bankrupt after owing €5.5m due to the collapse of the Irish property bubble.
Although from what I can tell there isn't much that's different in a general sense between US and UK courts on this, the language is so strange to hear. In the UK, a court declares you bankrupt; in the US you declare bankruptcy. It just sounds so much more statist that way.
posted by dhartung at 11:44 AM on June 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by dhartung at 11:44 AM on June 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
A while ago I read an article about a bunch of chaps who went abroad and lived in Wales in the cheapest place they could find, with some hardly-paying-at-all job, where the trick was to stay there just long enough to get the bankruptcy processed by UK courts, just to avoid the Irish laws.
posted by DreamerFi at 2:18 AM on June 17, 2012
posted by DreamerFi at 2:18 AM on June 17, 2012
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