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.
All acts are void that violate the automatic stay, regardless of whether they are willful or merely technical, according to Bankruptcy Judge Christopher D. Jaime of Sacramento, Calif.
In his December 2.....
During an era when courts torture the language of opaque statutes to find answers for difficult questions, it was refreshing to read an opinion by Bankruptcy Judge Robert A. Mark of Miami, who used.....
A decision from the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel underscores the need for updating common and statutory law to deal with breakups in the “modern family” and concerns for spousal abuse.
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To avoid forcing a debtor to pay the same tax lien twice, the majority on a Ninth Circuit panel held that a trustee may not avoid a lien securing a tax penalty and preserve the avoided lien for the.....
Believe it or not: Even if state law says that the amount of an exemption is the amount in effect when the lien was created, the Bankruptcy Code allows the debtor to avoid the lien under Section 522(f.....
Although it never passes through the debtor’s hands, medical and dental insurance premiums paid by an employer must be included in a chapter 13 debtor’s current monthly income, according to Bankruptcy.....
Ruling on a question of first impression, the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel held that a debtor who claims an exemption equal to “100% fair market value” is entitled to retain postpetition.....
Surveying recent authorities from around the nation, Bankruptcy Judge Mary Jo Heston of Tacoma, Wash., laid out the factors that control categorizing a lien as judicial or statutory.
The distinction.....
Concluding that recent Ninth Circuit authority gives the debtor an absolute right to dismiss a chapter 13 case, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit held “that ineligibility to be a.....
The Ninth Circuit handed down a terse opinion on a homestead exemption that seemed on cursory reading to validate the practice of buying and burying an unfavorable decision.
The debtor owned a limited.....