Bankruptcy Rule 7070, incorporating Federal Rule 70 along with 28 U.S.C. § 1655, gives bankruptcy courts power to remove liens of record when the lenders don’t do so voluntarily.

A secured lender need not obtain a deficiency judgment to retain a claim against an insurer for a shortfall in a bankruptcy sale, Bankruptcy Judge Grossman says.

Bankruptcy Judge Alan Koschik declined to follow cases decided before Congress amended Section 522(f) to preclude avoiding judicial liens securing domestic support obligations.

The state law standards for creation of a contract governed enforceability of a term sheet signed after mediation.

Memphis Bankruptcy Judge Denise Barnett reads the BAPCPA amendments as excluding personal injury settlements from the calculation of ‘projected disposable income.’

The value of a debtor’s interest in entireties property isn’t necessarily 50% of the value of the entire property.

The lawsuit was under federal law, not state law, even though Section 544(b)(1) incorporated state fraudulent transfer law.

Now a circuit judge, a former bankruptcy judge makes quick work of a troublesome issue about property of the estate.

Looking beyond the label assigned by the Affordable Care Act, three circuits have now held that failure to pay the ‘individual mandate’ for purchasing health insurance gave rise to a tax entitled to priority in bankruptcy.

As long as the student loan is owing to the government, the Fifth Circuit holds that the government bar date applies even when the servicer is a private company.