February 1, 2024
A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.
January 31, 2024
Bifurcated fee arrangements are cumbersome, temporary fixes for a problem that the Supreme Court created in Lamie.
January 30, 2024
When there has been a division of marital property, does a debtor only hold legal title to property given to the spouse?
January 29, 2024
9th Circuit , Oregon ,
The court can’t require a debtor to give a ‘retainer’ to a Subchapter V trustee, Judge Pearson says.
January 26, 2024
Fourth Circuit holds that attorneys’ fees and interest in pursuit of nondischargeable debts are themselves nondischargeable.
January 25, 2024
The Fifth Circuit answered one of the two questions being posed at this year’s Duberstein Moot Court Competition.
January 24, 2024
Although examiners must be appointed on motion, the Third Circuit says that the bankruptcy court retains ‘broad discretion’ to fix the scope and cost of the investigation.
January 23, 2024
Judge Beth Buchanan decided that the ‘totality of the circumstances’ test for ‘abuse’ doesn’t permit disregarding the exemption for Social Security benefits.
January 22, 2024
A California exemption law protecting victims of spousal abuse doesn’t apply to those who aren’t married.
January 19, 2024
District court rules that proceeds from a postpetition personal injury claim are ‘additional disposable income’ that ordinarily goes to creditors in a chapter 13 plan.