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August 24, 2020

Private charity is not considered to be part of a debtor’s income under the first part of the Brunner test.

August 20, 2020

Bankruptcy Court Alone May Decide Whether a Claim Is Estate Property, BAP Says

August 5, 2020

Lease assumption is binding even if the debtor doesn’t follow the procedural requirements of Section 365(p).

July 20, 2020

Bankruptcy Judge Warren makes sure the sanctions won’t be dischargeable if the offending creditor files his own bankruptcy.

July 15, 2020

Courts are divided on discharging fines in a corporate chapter 11 case when the government itself was not defrauded.

July 9, 2020

The Seventh Circuit opinion raises the question of whether (or when) a court may restrict the use of a provision in a chapter 13 plan that Section 1322(b) permits.

July 1, 2020

For the circuit court, scant evidence is enough to uphold the trial court’s findings of fact.

June 30, 2020

A properly drafted union contract still failed to leave a company officer with a nondischargeable debt for failing to make employer contributions to a union welfare fund.

June 26, 2020

Is Taggart just a defense that can be waived, or must a debtor plead and prove ‘no objectively reasonable basis’ in a motion for contempt of discharge?

June 19, 2020

Second Circuit says that later Supreme Court authority did not undermine the appeals court’s prior decision that creditors cannot compel arbitration of discharge violations.