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A judicial lien may be avoided under Section 522(f) only if the lien attached after the debtor acquired the property.

The Ninth Circuit may be backing off from Ybarra, a case that waives discharge for attorneys’ fees if the debtor ‘returns to the fray.’

The exaction for failure to purchase health insurance isn’t an excise tax ‘on a transaction’ under Section 507(a)(8)(E)(i).

Taggart allows a court to deny a contempt motion without deciding whether the creditor’s action actually violated the discharge injunction.

Despite the high court’s ban on nunc pro tunc orders, may bankruptcy courts make their orders retroactive?

Lawyers leaving a bankrupt firm are not required to pay over profits on hourly matters they take to their new firms.

The Supreme Court’s Merit Management opinion fails to persuade the Second Circuit to change the result in Tribune.

Fifth Circuit should decide en banc whether nondebtor releases are permissible in receiverships but not in bankruptcy cases.

A divided Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that an inherited IRA, not exempt under federal law, is exempt under state law.