Social Guarantees of Individuals in Bankruptcy

The relevance of the topic of this study is due to the important social significance of the bankruptcy procedure for individuals, which opens up great opportunities for people, allowing them to start a new life, getting rid of growing debts. However, despite a number of advantages, the bankruptcy procedure often brings the debtor and the creditor to some problems, the solution of which by the judicial authorities does not always lead to positive effects. The relevance of the study determined the choice of the topic, the setting of goals and objectives. The object of the research is the complex of social relations that are developing in the field of legal regulation and implementation of social guarantees of individuals in case of bankruptcy. The subject of the research is the norms of the current legislation on social guarantees of individuals in bankruptcy, as well as scientific works and other developments, and research of scientists and representatives of modern science in this subject area. The purpose of the study is to comprehensively study the theoretical and practical aspects of social guarantees of individuals in bankruptcy, as well as to develop directions for their solution. To achieve this goal, the research has the following tasks:  study the essence, functions, and modern features of the institution of bankruptcy of individuals;  to build a description of the system of social guarantees in case of bankruptcy of individuals in the current legislation;  to reveal the most important features of the implementation of guarantees of individuals in case of bankruptcy in foreign legislation;  to analyze the judicial practice in the sphere of implementation of social guarantees of individuals in case of bankruptcy;  to identify the problems of legal regulation of social guarantees of individuals in case of bankruptcy;  to propose ways to improve the legal regulation of social guarantees of individuals in case of bankruptcy in the Russian Federation. The study is based, first of all, on the dialectical method of cognition of socio-economic and legal processes and phenomena, which allows for a comprehensive analysis, generalization, systematization, and classification of interrelated relations that constituted the object of the study. A complex of general scientific (analysis and synthesis, systemic, logical) and special (comparative-legal, formal legal) methods of cognition is also used.