June 22, 2018
Federal student loan proceeds were never the parents’ property and thus could not be recovered by a trustee.
June 22, 2018
Lower courts are split on whether terminating a nonresidential lease for default means there is no automatic stay.
June 21, 2018
BAP agrees with Title Max that pawned property drops out of an estate automatically when state law does not require notice.
June 21, 2018
Fifth Circuit goes along with the Second and Eleventh by holding that supplying “necessaries” isn’t enough to justify a maritime lien.
June 20, 2018
Prepetition judgments for attorneys’ fees are not sacrosanct in bankruptcy.
June 19, 2018
Fifth Circuit’s liberal rule on allowing an informal proof of claim is interpreted liberally.
June 18, 2018
Courts are split on the interpretation of BAPCPA’s treatment of automatically rejected leases in chapter 7.
June 15, 2018
Notions of equity go out the window when the issue is maritime liens.
June 15, 2018
BAP agrees with Title Max that pawned property drops out of an estate automatically when state law does not require notice.
June 15, 2018
Fraudulent intent can’t be inferred from failure to disclose assets that became worthless before bankruptcy, Tenth Circuit says.