The requirement that a chapter 13 debtor submit all disposable income to fund a chapter 13 plan is one of the foundations of chapter 13 practice. It has been seen as a basic protection to unsecured creditors that a debtor is making a best e…

Since this author’s last column on post-confirmation interest rates in chapter 13 cases, several court decisions have been added to the mix. Not the least of these is Associates Commercial Corporation v. Rash, 117 S.Ct. 1879, 138 L.Ed.2d 14…

The focus of a chapter 13 filing is found in §1321, with its simple dictate: "The debtor shall file a plan." The debtor's goal in such a plan is to resolve as many issues as possible with the plan and confirmation. While there are limitatio…

Several years ago, this column addressed the then-growing tendency of bankruptcy courts to enter "first-day orders" allowing debtors to make post-petition payments on account of pre-petition unsecured employee wage claims over and above the…