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Section 502(b)(4) shields debtors from overreaching lawyers in a new context.

Courts split on the dischargeability of debts incurred in the course of divorce or separation.

Ten years later, courts are still sorting out who’s liable for Old GM’s failure to disclose a known defect.

A ‘cert’ petition is in the works to resolve the circuit split from Lubrizol regarding the rejection of trademark licenses.

The Second Circuit’s Barnet opinion on Section 109(a)’s requirement of property in the U.S. is satisfied by claims located in the U.S.

Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman skirts an arbitration agreement to allow discovery.

Principles of comity justify enforcing a U.K. scheme of arrangement that releases non-filed affiliates’ guarantees.

Law v. Siegel allows exempting an asset that had not been scheduled.

Children were the initial transferees of tuition payments, thus giving schools the ‘good faith’ defense to fraudulent transfers.

Judicial estoppel requires ‘an effort to game the bankruptcy system.’