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.
Courts don’t agree on who gets appreciation when a home is sold during a chapter 13 case or if the case converts to chapter 7. Does post-petition appreciation stay with the debtor, or does it go to.....
The receipt of a chapter 7 discharge does not automatically bar a debtor from converting a case to chapter 7, according to District Judge Nancy G. Edmonds of Detroit.
On the other hand, the right to.....
Even when the debtor has no personal liability on a mortgage secured by investment property, a chapter 13 plan may modify the mortgage, according to Bankruptcy Judge Kevin R. Huennekens of Richmond.....
Other than a judicial lien securing a domestic support obligation, a debtor may avoid a lien that impairs an exemption under Section 522(f), even if the lien secures a nondischargeable debt, according.....
On a question where courts disagree, Bankruptcy Judge Denise E. Barnett of Memphis, Tenn., has held that a chapter 13 debtor may retain exempt proceeds from a personal injury settlement because.....
Hon. Mark Randon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan recently weighed in on an issue that has divided bankruptcy courts over the past few years. Debtors who opt for.....
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Although the lower courts are split, the Fourth Circuit became the first court of appeals to rule that the Bankruptcy Code does not preempt claims under state law for violation of the discharge.....
The government won the IRS Open three sets to love, when the Sixth Circuit sided with the Third and Fourth Circuits by holding that the “penalty” imposed on a taxpayer for failure to purchase health.....
Bankruptcy Judge Klinette H. Kindred of Alexandria, Va., embraced the concurring opinion in this term’s Bartenwerfer opinion from the Supreme Court by holding that a poor schlub who was an unwitting.....