Rifle Held Exempt as Household Goods in Georgia but Not in Connecticut
Claiming a firearm is owned for defense of the household raises the odds that the gun will be exempt as household goods.
Medical Bills Are Held to Be Consumer Debts, Invoking the Means Test
Someone forced into bankruptcy on account of medical bills will also be forced into chapter 13.
Student Loans Discharged in Part, Even Though Debtor Wasn’t Destitute
A bankruptcy judge can afford little relief from student loans, even for sympathetic debtors who try hard to repay their debts.
Supreme Court Grapples with ‘Finality’ in Ritzen v. Jackson Masonry
Justices may narrow Bullard by drawing back from the requirement that finality requires a change in the status quo.
First Circuit Starkly Holds that Tuition for an Adult Child Is a Fraudulent Transfer
The case in the appeals court apparently did not involve a student account structured to prevent the college from being the initial recipient of a fraudulent transfer.