Creditors Don’t Receive Estate Assets Recovered After the Last Chapter 13 Plan Payment
Absent a provision in the plan to the contrary, creditors aren’t given estate assets recovered after the final plan payment.
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The Coerced, Vulnerable or Incapacitated Debtor: What Are Your Ethical Obligations?
Cursing the Debtor by Itself Isn’t a Violation of the Automatic Stay
A vulgarity directed at the debtor wasn’t a stay violation absent an act designed to collect a debt.
Congress Must Act to Permit Chapter 7 Debtors to Pay Counsel After Filing
Bifurcated fee arrangements are cumbersome, temporary fixes for a problem that the Supreme Court created in Lamie.
Bankruptcy "Judge Shopping" Under Fire from Creditors, Professors
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The Ethics of AI and ChatGPT
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Debt Purchaser Socked $65,000 for a Discharge Violation
Taggart doesn’t give more protection to a purchaser of debt than it does to the original creditor, Judge Scott Grossman says.
Reference Withdrawal on Houston Ethics Probe Pits UST Against Bankruptcy Judge
Despite consent by the firm to withdraw the reference of motions to disgorge its fees, a bankruptcy judge in Houston recommended against withdrawal to district court and against transfer to another district.