consumer Cases
August 8, 2019
BAP reversed the bankruptcy court’s ruling that personal liability on a discharged debt was resurrected in ‘chapter 20.
August 7, 2019
7th Circuit , Illinois ,
A judicial lien impairing a homestead exemption is avoidable in some states under Section 522(f), but not in others.
August 2, 2019
Fifth Circuit now says that student loans must ‘impose intolerable difficulties’ to be dischargeable.
July 30, 2019
There is no prohibited double recovery from multiple defendants, the appeals courts says, until the trustee has recovered cash equaling the value of the fraudulently transferred property.
July 22, 2019
Judge Collins discharges all but $23,900 among nine student loans totaling $154,000.
July 18, 2019
To be nondischargeable, a stipulated judgment must lay out facts showing the debt was incurred by false representation or actual fraud.
July 11, 2019
Some lower courts don’t allow chapter 13 plan payments after five years, but two circuits do.
July 8, 2019
Like physics, bankruptcy searches for a unified theory to explain claims by and against the estate.
July 2, 2019
On an issue dividing the courts, the Seventh Circuit rules that an obligation to repay a domestic support obligation is a dischargeable debt, not a nondischargeable DSO.
July 1, 2019
Circuit Judge Grant explains why an IRA might be exempt under federal law but not exempt under the Florida exemption statute.