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March 28, 2025

When estimated tax payments are ‘reasonable’ estimates of the year’s taxes, they aren’t fraudulent transfers, district judge says

March 04, 2025

When retention benefits the chapter 11 debtor individually but not the estate, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Bradley believes that compensation is not subject to approval under Section 330.

June 07, 2024

The Code doesn’t contain any rules specifying when a Subchapter V plan should have a five-year duration rather than three years.

May 09, 2024

Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Bradley disagreed with a district court in Florida that required a ‘true up’ if actual disposable income in Sub V exceeds projected disposable income.

January 12, 2024

Unnecessarily holding the lender’s feet to the fire resulted in the allowance of attorneys’ fees to the lender that were twice the debtor’s counsel fees.

October 04, 2023

Consolidating student loans after filing creates a post-petition debt that can’t be discharged without filing bankruptcy again.

June 09, 2023

Defeated three times, a chapter 7 trustee is appealing to the Fifth Circuit to end the exemption for whole-life policies in Texas.

March 15, 2023

Bankruptcy Judges Gargotta and Davis both held that the amended Texas exemption statute exempts life insurance policies and their cash surrender values.

November 16, 2022

The Fourth Circuit had recently held that both individuals and corporations in subchapter V of chapter 11 are barred from discharging debts that are nondischargeable under Section 523(a).

June 27, 2022

Death is a reason for waiving the requirement for completing a financial management course.