Rochelle's Daily Wire

Knowledge of a chapter 11 case is enough to bind a creditor to the terms of a plan, even if the creditor hasn’t filed a claim, the Fifth Circuit says.

A division of marital property on consent to someone other than a spouse might be a fraudulent transfer.

A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.

Bifurcated fee arrangements are cumbersome, temporary fixes for a problem that the Supreme Court created in Lamie.

When there has been a division of marital property, does a debtor only hold legal title to property given to the spouse?

The court can’t require a debtor to give a ‘retainer’ to a Subchapter V trustee, Judge Pearson says.

Fourth Circuit holds that attorneys’ fees and interest in pursuit of nondischargeable debts are themselves nondischargeable.

The Fifth Circuit answered one of the two questions being posed at this year’s Duberstein Moot Court Competition.

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.

Judge Beth Buchanan decided that the ‘totality of the circumstances’ test for ‘abuse’ doesn’t permit disregarding the exemption for Social Security benefits.