Joining the Tenth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit also has held that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. The identical issue was argued on February 15 before the Second Circuit.
In short order, we’ll have either unanimity or a split of circuits. A split will give rise to an issue worthy of a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court.
Notably, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion on June 12 adopted reasoning in an amicus brief filed in support of the debtor by the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center and National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
Once a debtor has completed plan payments, the bankruptcy court has power under Bankruptcy Rule 7070 to clear title by removing liens that were stripped off in the debtor’s chapter 13 plan.
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Other than a judicial lien securing a domestic support obligation, a debtor may avoid a lien that impairs an exemption under Section 522(f), even if the lien secures a nondischargeable debt, according.....
A settlement term sheet signed after mediation by the debtor, her nondebtor husband and the creditor was enforceable, according to Bankruptcy Judge Ashely M. Chan of Philadelphia, even though the.....
On a question where courts disagree, Bankruptcy Judge Denise E. Barnett of Memphis, Tenn., has held that a chapter 13 debtor may retain exempt proceeds from a personal injury settlement because.....
In fixing the value of a debtor’s interest in property held as tenants by the entireties when avoiding a judicial lien as an impairment of an exemption under Section 522(f), the First Circuit held.....
The Eleventh Circuit narrowly read a Florida fee-shifting statute to bar recovery of attorneys’ fees in an avoidance action unsuccessfully brought by a debtor incorporating state fraudulent transfer.....
The government won the IRS Open three sets to love, when the Sixth Circuit sided with the Third and Fourth Circuits by holding that the “penalty” imposed on a taxpayer for failure to purchase health.....
The extended bar date for governmental claims applies if a governmental unit is the holder of the claim, even if a nongovernmental entity is the servicer of the claim, the Fifth Circuit says.
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Answering a certified question, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the state’s enlarged homestead exemption applies to creditors whose unsecured claims arose before the exemption was increased.....
For authority, Bankruptcy Judge Kathryn C. Ferguson of Trenton, N.J., could have cited Bob Dylan, who sang, “For the times, they are a-changin’.”
The debtor had been fired by his employer, allegedly.....