Texas

Death is a reason for waiving the requirement for completing a financial management course.

Plan amendments in chapter 13 must come before the debtors make their final payments to the trustee.

Motions to recuse three bankruptcy judges fortified the third judge’s decision to dismiss and bar refiling for three years.

The Iqbal and Twombly standards don’t apply to involuntary petitioners who are required to use Official Form 105.

Section 330(a)(4)(B) is an exception to the American Rule and the notion that administrative expenses must benefit the estate, not just the debtor.

Incivility may be acceptable in matrimonial matters, but not when the lawyer represents a debtor.

Creditors’ lawyers shot themselves in the foot by having the bankruptcy judge moot a motion for an extension of the dischargeability deadline.

Judge Rodriguez holds servicer and lender liable under Rule 3002.1 and the FDCPA for making a claim for unpaid real estate taxes that had been paid.

Holder in due course of consumer paper remains subject to the debtor’s claims against the originator of the paper.

Congress may have intended to preclude ‘stay and pay,’ but it didn’t succeed.