A chapter 11 plan may not impair the rights of a mortgage lender against a co-owner who is not in bankruptcy.

Revesting allowed chapter 13 debtors to retain property that was innocently undisclosed.

Violating a PACA trust does not result in ‘defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity’ that makes a debt nondischargeable, Bankruptcy Judge Panos says, taking sides with the Eleventh Circuit.

Chapter 7 can be inaccessible for a married debtor living in the same household with a nonfiling spouse who has substantial income.

Massachusetts bankruptcy judge requires flexibility from both the government and the debtor who is saddled with huge student loans.

Section 106 wasn’t sufficiently explicit to waive sovereign immunity for Indian tribes, Judge Frank Bailey said in siding with the Sixth Circuit and differing with the Ninth Circuit.

Judge Hoffman’s analysis comports with the ABI Commission’s recommendations for improvements in lease assumptions by chapter 7 debtors under Section 365(p).

Like physics, bankruptcy searches for a unified theory to explain claims by and against the estate.

Courts split on allowing compensation to a chapter 7 trustee when the case is converted to chapter 13 before distributions were made.

Two Boston judges agree: The 10% penalty for early withdrawals from a retirement account doesn’t have priority under Section 508(a)(8).