consumer Cases
July 31, 2017
Decisions to surrender aren’t made in ‘perpetuity,’ Judge Isicoff holds.
July 28, 2017
Courts are split on including some exempt assets into the calculation of disposable income.
July 26, 2017
Chapter 11 committees achieve standing more readily than chapter 13 debtors.
July 24, 2017
Fifth Circuit rule effectively precludes selling exempt property until the case is closed, if not later.
July 20, 2017
A ‘no harm, no foul’ stay violation is harmless error.
July 17, 2017
Debtors have standing for a motion compelling a trustee to abandon.
July 7, 2017
Courts split on inclusion of life insurance proceeds in a chapter 13 estate.
July 6, 2017
Unperfected mortgage can be perfected after discharge, BAP implies.
July 3, 2017
Section 105(a) was utilized because Section 1301 is silent on sanctions.
June 29, 2017
Eleventh Circuit relies on the ‘evolution’ of Section 707(b) to proscribe an evasion of the means test.