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Unnecessarily holding the lender’s feet to the fire resulted in the allowance of attorneys’ fees to the lender that were twice the debtor’s counsel fees.

Consolidating student loans after filing creates a post-petition debt that can’t be discharged without filing bankruptcy again.

Defeated three times, a chapter 7 trustee is appealing to the Fifth Circuit to end the exemption for whole-life policies in Texas.

Bankruptcy Judges Gargotta and Davis both held that the amended Texas exemption statute exempts life insurance policies and their cash surrender values.

The Fourth Circuit had recently held that both individuals and corporations in subchapter V of chapter 11 are barred from discharging debts that are nondischargeable under Section 523(a).

Death is a reason for waiving the requirement for completing a financial management course.

Creditors’ lawyers shot themselves in the foot by having the bankruptcy judge moot a motion for an extension of the dischargeability deadline.

Does Rule 9006(a) expand the 30-day window for perfection, and can perfection be “substantially contemporaneous” even if perfection occurs after 30 days?

The general rule in Langenkamp calling for the waiver of Seventh Amendment rights prevails over the unique facts of a case.

A crisis befalls smaller companies that can’t afford the huge increase in U.S. Trustee fees.