West Jeffrey E PC

Bankruptcy is Federal law and subject to the U. S. Bankruptcy Courts. Bankruptcy law is federal statutory law contained in Title 11 of the US Code. Congress passed the Bankruptcy Code under its Constitutional grant of authority to establish.uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcy throughout the US. States may not regulate bankruptcy though they may pass laws that govern other kinds of the debtor-creditor relationship. A number of sections of Title 11 incorporate the debtor-creditor law of the personal states.