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Courts are divided on whether automatic stay termination in Section 362(c)(3) applies to property of the debtor’s estate.

To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.

Wisconsin district judge implies that a chapter 13 debtor might obtain ‘derivative standing’ to avoid an unperfected mortgage.

Another court strains to explain why costs incurred by disciplinary authorities were not in compensation for “actual pecuniary loss.”

The lender’s consent to direct payments by the family farmer persuaded Judge Furay to overrule the chapter 12 trustee’s objection to the plan.

Judge Furay interprets ‘disbursements’ not to include the daily sweep of a collection account in a revolving credit.

Student loan debtor ineligible for chapter 7 may pursue chapter 13 even with too much unsecured debt, Judge Catherine J. Furay says.

Question left open in Harris v. Viegelahn decided against debtor in chapter 11.

On dischargeability, post-filing waivers work, but pre-filing ones don’t.