Fall House Cleaning Recent Developments in Avoiding Liens on Exempt Homesteads
To enable a fresh start, debtors often seek to avoid judicial liens that impair a claimed homestead exemption. With adjustable-rate mortgages, rising credit costs and increasing delinquencies, there is likely to be more activity in this motion practice. Debtors will be
Empowerment of Creditor Rights Section 727 Denial of Discharge and the BAPCPA of 2005
Before enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005, the denial of discharge imposed against an individual chapter 7 debtor under §727 of the Bankruptcy Code was one of the most positive provisions available to creditors. The