March 15, 2018
Courts are split on aggregating filed and non-filed claims in calculating chapter 12 eligibility.
March 14, 2018
Destitute debtor allowed to challenge student loans six years after a chapter 7 discharge.
March 13, 2018
4th Circuit , Maryland ,
Midland Funding expanded to allow unlicensed debt collectors to file claims.
March 12, 2018
9th Circuit , Montana ,
Montana judge cuts committee counsel’s interim allowance to rates charged by debtor’s counsel.
March 12, 2018
Selling a home after filing chapter 7 does not destroy the homestead exemption.
March 9, 2018
New case seems inconsistent with Second Circuit’s prior opinion compelling arbitration over an automatic stay violation.
March 8, 2018
Illinois judge interprets Rule 3002.1 as being ‘debtor-friendly,’ not as creating new grounds for denial of a chapter 13 discharge.
March 7, 2018
Jewel has now been formally rejected in New York and California. Washington, D.C. is next.
March 6, 2018
The parties’ wishes are insufficient to justify sealing.
March 5, 2018
Yet another example of how hard cases make bad law.