January 23, 2025
Long Island’s Judge Grossman warns lawyers that they may be paid nothing if they file chapter 11 cases just to delay a secured creditor, with no legitimate strategy for selling the property, refinancing or confirming a plan.
4th Circuit
November 14, 2024
Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner decided that a mortgage servicer must allow a chapter 13 debtor’s continued use of an online payment platform.
4th Circuit, Maryland
October 21, 2024
Bankruptcy courts are divided on whether the calculation of a trustee’s commissions includes distributions made to co-owners of property that the trustee has sold.
4th Circuit, Maryland
August 26, 2024
Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner held that a wholly unsecured, subordinate lien may be stripped off in chapter 13 even if the lien arose before the debtor owned the property.
4th Circuit, Maryland
August 19, 2024
Local rules and local standard plans cannot force a chapter 13 debtor to disregard one of the options in Section 1327 and require revesting of estate assets on discharge.
4th Circuit
August 02, 2024
The majority in the Fourth Circuit based a bright-line rule on the presence of the word ‘the’ in Section 327(a).
4th Circuit
