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1182

Subchapter V

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Bankruptcy Judges Agree: Later Developments Don’t Undo Subchapter V Eligibility

The $7.5 million debt cap for Subchapter V doesn’t include the debt of affiliates who file later.

Student Loans Didn’t Qualify as Commercial Debt for Sub V Eligibility

The business debt necessary to qualify for Subchapter V need not to have arisen from the debtor’s business at the time of filing, Bankruptcy Judge Meier says.

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Later Developments Don’t Undo Subchapter V Eligibility, Houston Judge Says

In the Alex Jones corporate Subchapter V case, Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said that the later chapter 11 filing by Jones himself, with about $1.5 billion in debt, didn’t kick the corporate debtor out of Subchapter V and into ‘ordinary’ chapter 11.