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March 6, 2024

By referring to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the appellant might have won an appeal where the bankruptcy court effectively set aside an erroneous decision by a state court regarding discharge.

February 13, 2024

Nondischargeability for Sub V corporate debtors is sub judice in the Fifth Circuit.

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?

December 28, 2023

Being an heir by itself doesn’t bring a decedent’s estate into the heir’s bankruptcy estate.

December 7, 2023

Chicago Bankruptcy Judge David Cleary followed a decision by then-district Judge David Hamilton and “respectfully” disagreed with decisions by two predecessors on the same bankruptcy bench.

November 16, 2023

When there is a recorded option to purchase real estate, Prof. Westbrook would have analyzed the specific performance rights of the holder of the option under state law, not the question of whether the option was executory.

June 30, 2023

Just because the debtor orchestrated a fraudulent transfer, the Seventh Circuit tells us there’s nothing for a trustee recover if there was no diminution of the estate.

June 13, 2023

Indianapolis Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham says that the bankruptcy court cannot become “another court of general jurisdiction.”

June 2, 2023

Although a stock purchase and a loan payoff were one month apart, a district judge in Indiana found a sufficient nexus to invoke the safe harbor and dismiss a fraudulent transfer suit.

May 18, 2023

Within the next year, four circuits will have ruled on a split where some lower courts pay chapter 13 trustees and others don’t when dismissal precedes confirmation.

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