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.
The Ninth Circuit tells us that a claim of a debtor belongs to the estate if the claim is based on a course of conduct that began before bankruptcy and continues after filing. The debtor isn’t even.....
One day apart, bankruptcy judges in the Ninth Circuit disagreed on the availability of emotional distress damages to remedy violations of the discharge injunction in Section 524.
Relying on authorities.....
In chapter 7, the retainer that an individual debtor pays to his or her lawyer likely will not require the lawyer to defend adversary proceedings, such as those attacking the dischargeability of a.....
Not all student loans are automatically nondischargeable under Section 523(a)(8), according to the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.
If a student loan wasn’t automatically discharged, the BAP’s.....
Three bankruptcy judges in St. Louis sat en banc and wrote an opinion that effectively bars bifurcated fee arrangements in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Recognizing “the difficulty that many.....
As shown in an opinion by a district judge in Arkansas, the law throughout the country is not uniform when it comes to the ability of a bankruptcy trustee to sell a debtor’s defensive appellate rights.....
When debt in an “asset” case is not discharged because the creditor didn’t receive notice of the bankruptcy, the Ninth Circuit tells us that the entire debt was not discharged, not just the portion.....
Siding with the Ninth Circuit and distinguishing a seemingly similar decision from the Tenth Circuit, the Eighth Circuit held that appreciation in the value of a home during a chapter 13 case belongs.....
Believing that two bankruptcy judges and a district judge were wrong, the majority on the Arizona Supreme Court answered a certified question by holding that a self-propelled motor home (a/k/a an RV).....
If a trustee recovers an estate asset after the debtor made their last payment under a chapter 13 plan, the recovery goes to the debtor in the absence of a provision in the plan directing the asset to.....