Collection efforts after bankruptcy are illegal. Pretty simple stuff, actually â if a debt is discharged, nobody can collect from you for ever and ever, amen. The trick is to know what happens if a creditor does, in fact, try to collect after bankruptcy. Are they breaking the bankruptcy laws and, if so, what is the penalty? Most courts have held that there is no private remedy for the violation of the discharge injunction. The remedy is by bringing a lawsuit for contempt of a court order, which leads to sanctions and an award of legal fees.
France signed preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain on January 20, 1783, followed by a formal peace of Paris signed on September 3, 1783. The illustration above, a copy of a sketch by the studio of Benjamin West, shows the American negotiators of the Peace of Paris.
America's independence was declared by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, but it wasn't signed by all the congressional delegates until 1781! And it wasn't until 1783 (when the Treaty of Paris was signed), that the Revolutionary War formally ended.