Joining the Tenth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit also has held that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. The identical issue was argued on February 15 before the Second Circuit.
In short order, we’ll have either unanimity or a split of circuits. A split will give rise to an issue worthy of a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court.
Notably, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion on June 12 adopted reasoning in an amicus brief filed in support of the debtor by the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center and National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
Once a debtor has completed plan payments, the bankruptcy court has power under Bankruptcy Rule 7070 to clear title by removing liens that were stripped off in the debtor’s chapter 13 plan.
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The bankruptcy court has discretion to avoid a constructively fraudulent transfer of exempt property even if the result makes the debtor solvent and able to pay her creditors in full, the Second.....
Finding neither constitutional nor prudential standing to appeal, the Ninth Circuit permitted a chapter 7 trustee to sell a home out from underneath the debtors when the home was worth less than the.....
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Answering a certified question, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state’s enlarged homestead exemption applies to creditors whose unsecured claims arose before the exemption was increased.....
There is a body of caselaw where trustees have sued, with more or less success, to recover tuition paid by parents for emancipated children. But when the trustee for a father recently alleged that an.....
Joining the Tenth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit also has held that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. The identical issue was argued on February 15.....