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.
An appeal pending in the Seventh Circuit since 2016 may end up in the Supreme Court a year or two from now to resolve a circuit split over whether Section 505(a) grants jurisdiction to the bankruptcy.....
In chapter 7, the retainer that an individual debtor pays to his or her lawyer likely will not require the lawyer to defend adversary proceedings, such as those attacking the dischargeability of a.....
Unlike overpayments of Medicaid, which are subject to recoupment, the discharge injunction (sometimes?) prevents the government from recovering overpayments of Social Security benefits from debtors.
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Three circuits now hold that chapter 13 trustees are not paid their fees when cases are dismissed before confirmation. In an opinion on March 3, the Seventh Circuit joined the Ninth and Tenth Circuits.....
Not all student loans are automatically nondischargeable under Section 523(a)(8), according to the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.
If a student loan wasn’t automatically discharged, the BAP’s.....
Generally speaking, in bankruptcy, property owned as a tenant by the entireties is exempt. Interpreting Section 522(b)(3) and seemingly motived in part by policy concerns, the Fourth Circuit held that.....
A four-wheel, all-terrain vehicle is exempt as a “motor vehicle,” at least in Ohio. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Ann Whipple declined to engraft a “use” qualification onto the statutory language.
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Three bankruptcy judges in St. Louis sat en banc and wrote an opinion that effectively bars bifurcated fee arrangements in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Recognizing “the difficulty that many.....
When there is an objection to confirmation, Section 1325(b)(1) requires the debtor to pay creditors in full or devote all “projected disposable income” to the payment of claims.
On a question where.....
A troubling decision from a district court in New Jersey seems to have disregarded the power of a bankruptcy court under Section 329 to rule on the adequacy of disclosures and the amount of.....