Plan Confirmation

Preferential First-day Orders Same Question Different Look

Several years ago, this column addressed the then-growing tendency of bankruptcy courts to enter "first-day orders" allowing debtors to make post-petition payments on account of pre-petition unsecured employee wage claims over and above the priority limit established in

Post-Closing Demands for Mortgage-Related Fees Assessed During a Chapter 13 Plan Part III What Can Be Done

Editor's Note: Part I was published in the May 2006 issue and Part II was published in the June 2006 issue of the ABI Journal. With an understanding of how post-confirmation fees and charges can arise and why no attempt to collect those fees and charges is generally