Rochelle's Daily Wire

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February 6, 2024

A debtor has one bite at the apple to enforce discharge. Take your pick: state or federal court, but not both.

February 2, 2024

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

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 26, 2024

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

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.

January 18, 2024

Taggart doesn’t give more protection to a purchaser of debt than it does to the original creditor, Judge Scott Grossman says.