Dilatory actions by a debtor tolled statutes of limitations for a trustee’s suit against a third party.

Tenth Circuit will be deciding whether an entire child tax credit is exempt or only a pro rata portion.

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.

Virginia’s Judge Keith Phillips sides with courts that bar lenders from cutting deals with trustees to eliminate debtors’ homestead exemptions.

A post-confirmation lawsuit to generate funds to pay a chapter 13 plan establishes ‘related to’ jurisdiction for noncore claims.

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit majority held that a chapter 13 debtor has the right to dismiss under Section 1307(b) before the bankruptcy court decides whether the filing was in good faith.

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

Debtors paid a high price for their counsel’s inattention to their needs after plan confirmation.

Reversing the BAP, the Ninth Circuit held that counsel’s oral waiver of sovereign immunity did not bind the state.

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.