Rochelle's Daily Wire

A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.

Bifurcated fee arrangements are cumbersome, temporary fixes for a problem that the Supreme Court created in Lamie.

When there has been a division of marital property, does a debtor only hold legal title to property given to the spouse?

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

Judge Beth Buchanan decided that the ‘totality of the circumstances’ test for ‘abuse’ doesn’t permit disregarding the exemption for Social Security benefits.

A California exemption law protecting victims of spousal abuse doesn’t apply to those who aren’t married.

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.

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

The Sixth Circuit holds that a debtor cannot recover attorneys’ fees from the U.S. Trustee under the EAJA in a contested matter, but leaves open the possibility of liability for counsel fees in a losing adversary proceeding.

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