Preferences

Entire Garnishment Is a Preference, Even What the Creditor’s Lawyer Keeps

The appeals court sticks to basics and rejects several clever arguments to beat a preference.
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Tenth Circuit Panel Splits on a Triangular Preference

Tenth Circuit and its BAP follow the same controlling authority but reach opposite results.
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Two Bankruptcy Judges Address Splits on Two Major Preference Issues

Does Rule 9006(a) expand the 30-day window for perfection, and can perfection be “substantially contemporaneous” even if perfection occurs after 30 days?

Majority of Courts Still Permit Small-Dollar Avoidance Suits in the Debtor’s Home Court

New York district judge agrees with the ABI Journal: Congress did not succeed in requiring trustees to file small-dollar avoidance actions in the defendant’s district.

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