Consumer Point/Counterpoint

Late-Allowed Vehicle Claims and the Importance of Finality By Linda B. Gore Editor’s Note: Unlike past articles in this column, the authors mostly agree on the viewpoint, but this article outlines the basis for those trustees/courts that take a different position. Most

Late-Allowed Vehicle Claims and the Importance of Finality By Linda B. Gore Editor’s Note: Unlike past articles in this column, the authors mostly agree on the viewpoint, but this article outlines the basis for those trustees/courts that take a different position. Most

Tug-of-War over Post-Confirmation Appreciation in Chapter 13 By Krispen Carroll Everybody likes a windfall, the happenstance of financial luck that seems to come out of the blue. American homeowners were justified to feel like they were the beneficiaries of a windfall

The Debtor Is Entitled to Ch. 13 Post-Petition Asset Appreciation By Charissa Potts Imagine this hypothetical: An honest debtor in a confirmed chapter 13 plan becomes unable to afford her mortgage payment due to circumstances beyond her control. She has a few years to

Have We Led Chapter 13 Debtors Down the Garden Path with Promises of Pandemic Relief? 1 By David Cox COVID-19 entered the chapter 13 consumer debtor community like a “wrecking ball.” 2 Soon after COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S., the unemployment rate jumped

Here Yesterday, Gone Today: No Authority to Confirm a Modified Chapter 13 Plan Longer than 60 Months After the Expiration of § 1329(d) By Hon. Elizabeth L. Gunn and Don F. Mago The appearance and disappearance just over two years later of § 1329(d) of the Bankruptcy