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Bankruptcy and Article 9: 2020 Statutory Supplement is offered in two versions. Both are smaller, lighter, and more portable than competing Supplements. Each version includes: UCC Article 1, UCC Article 9, key excerpts from UCC Article 2 and UCC Article 8, Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, Uniform Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title and Anti-Theft Act, Bankruptcy Code, selections from the Bankruptcy Rules Title 18 and Title 28 of the United States Code, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and Federal Tax Lien Act. Each of the 2020 versions contains the Small Business Reorganization Act, bankruptcy amendments from the CARES Act, and amendments to UCC comments. In the course of a career, the number of state and federal statutes that a serious practitioner of commercial law would likely consult must surely reach into the hundreds. Not many practitioners would try to carry such statutes around, either in books or in their heads. But a few statutes are used over and over. Together, those few form the core of two basic subjects in commercial law, secured transactions and bankruptcy. Those core statutes are reproduced in this slender volume. The Visilaw Marked Version contains the same statutes, but with modified formatting and patented VisiLaw markings that makes the statutes easier to read and improves comprehension. Three out of five commercial law students chose the VisiLaw Marked Version over the unmarked version. These features are unique to the VisiLaw Marked Version: Each mark has the same, clearly defined meaning in every occurrence Primary sentence structure is visible at a glance Underlining creates readable sentences-within-sentences Cohesive phrase marks indicate words that should be read together Standardized marks facilitate a variety of reading strategies Boldface makes paragraph numbers and le