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.
Bankruptcy Judge Michael B. Slade of Chicago said he was confronted with “competing lines of authority regarding how to allocate a tax refund between a debtor’s estate and a non-debtor spouse where.....
For a judgment to become a lien on a debtor’s real property, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing the judgment, for reasons explained by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Catherine J.....
Questions under chapter 13 can be complex, but the issue confronting Bankruptcy Judge Laura K. Grandy of East St. Louis, Ill., was off the charts.
Two people purchased a car together, taking title in.....
On an issue where the circuits are split, a magistrate judge in Chicago naturally followed the Seventh Circuit by dismissing a claim without prejudice where the debtor was pursuing contempt for.....
An appeal pending in the Seventh Circuit since 2016 may end up in the Supreme Court a year or two from now to resolve a circuit split over whether Section 505(a) grants jurisdiction to the bankruptcy.....
Three circuits now hold that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. In an opinion on March 3, the Seventh Circuit joined the Ninth and Tenth Circuits.....
When there is an objection to confirmation, Section 1325(b)(1) requires the debtor to pay creditors in full or devote all “projected disposable income” to the payment of claims.
On a question where.....
Alleging that a debtor was a net winner in a Ponzi scheme doesn’t state a claim for nondischargeability, even when the debtor has realized an “impossibly high” profit of $93,000 on an investment of $2.....
After discharge, a creditor may not revivify a judicial lien that was avoided as an impairment of an exemption under Section 522(f), for reasons explained by Circuit Judge Frank H. Easterbrook.....
Bankruptcy is no get-out-of-jail-free card for someone who has disobeyed matrimonial court orders, as shown in an opinion by Bankruptcy Judge David D. Cleary of Chicago.
The January 19 decision by.....