by Calculated Risk on 5/04/2010 08:34:00 AM

From Bloomberg:

Filings totaled almost 146,000 in April, according to data compiled by Automated Access to Court Electronic Records, a service of Oklahoma City-based Jupiter ESources LLC. March filings were about 158,000.

The April filing total represented a 15 percent increase from April 2009 total. This is the 2nd highest month since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was enacted.

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This graph shows the non-business bankruptcy filings by quarter using monthly data from the ABI and previous quarterly data from USCourts.gov.

The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) is forecasting over 1.5 million filings in 2010. This is an increase from the just over 1.4 million filings in 2004. I think the ABI forecast is low ...