January 8, 2025
To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.
October 2, 2024
Because ‘excusable neglect’ won’t allow a late vote to be counted, counsel must solicit votes on a plan before the voting deadline.
December 28, 2023
Being an heir by itself doesn’t bring a decedent’s estate into the heir’s bankruptcy estate.
December 28, 2022
Wisconsin district judge implies that a chapter 13 debtor might obtain ‘derivative standing’ to avoid an unperfected mortgage.
November 9, 2022
A plan longer than five years must revert to a five-year plan now that Congress has allowed Section 1329(d) to expire, Judge Hanan says.
November 3, 2022
Milwaukee district judge rules that bankruptcy does not cut off future liability on a personal guarantee issued before bankruptcy.
September 29, 2021
Confirming a chapter 13 plan on the assumption that a claim was entitled to priority didn’t bar the debtors from later objecting to the priority of the claim.
September 8, 2021
The ‘conduct’ test in the Seventh Circuit, not the ‘accrual test,’ determines when a claim arose and whether it was discharged.
April 1, 2021
Another court strains to explain why costs incurred by disciplinary authorities were not in compensation for “actual pecuniary loss.”
March 4, 2021
Deferred payments to unsecured creditors in a chapter 13 plan must equal the present value of the distributions required by the best interests test, Judge Halfenger says.