Rochelle's Daily Wire

Chapter 13 scholar Keith Lundin believes that debtors retain inheritances acquired more than 180 days after filing.

An appraisal was rejected entirely as being ‘inherently unreliable’ when it gave the client the value that the client wanted.

The $7.5 million debt cap for Subchapter V doesn’t include the debt of affiliates who file later.

A BAP strictly enforced the stay against a mortgage servicer who improperly listed a pre-petition debt in the portion of the monthly statement showing the next post-petition payment.

A terse Second Circuit order seems to mean that a stay of a confirmation order pending appeal granted in district court can’t be appealed to the circuit, at least when the appeal is being expedited.

Contributions to 401(k) plans are deducted from ‘projected disposable income,’ even though the debtor was not making contributions before filing

In the Alex Jones corporate Subchapter V case, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said that the later chapter 11 filing by Jones himself, with about $1.5 billion in debt, didn’t kick the corporate debtor out of Subchapter V and into ‘ordinary’ chapter 11.

Peculiar circumstance compelled a Delaware judge to depart from his usual approval of ‘opt-out’ plans that grant non-debtor releases.

The U.S. Attorney argued in district court that the Voyager plan would bar the government from enforcing federal regulations and criminal laws.

Upholding confirmation of the Boy Scouts’ chapter 11 plan, the district judge in Delaware disagreed with his counterpart in New York who found no statutory power to impose non-consensual, non-debtor third-party releases.