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Standing Trustees Should Be Paid in Unconfirmed Cases By Grant Rosinko Recent decisions in several circuits have denied compensation to standing trustees when a chapter 13 case is dismissed prior to plan confirmation. There is now a split of authority resulting from two

Credit-Rating Agency Reform in the Shadow of Dodd-Frank By Arielle Allen Editor’s Note: To commemorate their roles in the bankruptcy community and carry their legacies forward to future generations of law students, the Hon. Larry E. Kelly Bankruptcy American Inn of

Recognition of Income-Based Repayment of Student Debt in Disposable Income By Michael Polkoff Student loan debt has generated significant discourse on how it should be treated during bankruptcy, 1 yet the income-based-repayment (IBR) alternative intended to reduce the

Balance 101: Recalibrating the Student Debt Relationship By Ryan M. Deutsch Over the years, Congress has implemented various pieces of legislation amending the legal framework applied in the dischargeability analysis for student loan debt. Consequently, these amendments

Florida’s Homestead Exemption: Ensuring an Equal Application of the Law By James M. Truett Across the U.S., various states lack uniformity in their bankruptcy homestead-exemption laws pertaining to when debtors qualify for the homestead exemption within their state

Why Courts Need to Consider the Impact of Student Loan Debt on Mental Health By Abigail Stone Student loans have been a hot-button topic for the last several years, especially in recent months since the announcement of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan