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
Involuntary Individual Chapter 11 Post-BAPCPA as a Collection Device
The changes to "individual chapter 11" wrought by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), which essentially grafted the chapter 13 structure onto chapter 11 for individuals, have been controversial. Issues and problems remain