Displaying Journal Articles for Author Alane A. Becket

Under the Bankruptcy Code prior to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), §1322(d), 1 "Contents of plan" stated: The plan may not provide for payments over a period that is longer than three years unle…

While we begin to digest all of the new opinions on the complicated and sometimes ambiguous provisions of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), it may also be a good time to recall one of the more mun…

Over the course of the last several months, three submissions to the ABI Journal have dealt with proof-of-claim documentation and related issues. 1 This topic has sharply divided bankruptcy practitioners into the obvious segments of credito…

Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) implementation in the bankruptcy courts has been underway since early 2001. Currently, approximately 61 courts are operational, with more scheduled to become activated each month. With the adv…

The Bankruptcy Code does not exist in a vacuum. Inevitably, there will be overlap between the Code and other federal and state statutes. Federal pre-emption resolves many conflicts arising with state laws. However, where the Bankruptcy Code…

arlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals took the unusual step of granting a rehearing en banc to determine the standard for non-dischargeability of credit card debt in In re Mercer, 246 F.3d 391 (Miss. 2001). The rehearing foll…