Courts are divided on whether automatic stay termination in Section 362(c)(3) applies to property of the debtor’s estate.
To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.
Because ‘excusable neglect’ won’t allow a late vote to be counted, counsel must solicit votes on a plan before the voting deadline.
Being an heir by itself doesn’t bring a decedent’s estate into the heir’s bankruptcy estate.
Wisconsin district judge implies that a chapter 13 debtor might obtain ‘derivative standing’ to avoid an unperfected mortgage.
A plan longer than five years must revert to a five-year plan now that Congress has allowed Section 1329(d) to expire, Judge Hanan says.
Milwaukee district judge rules that bankruptcy does not cut off future liability on a personal guarantee issued before bankruptcy.
Confirming a chapter 13 plan on the assumption that a claim was entitled to priority didn’t bar the debtors from later objecting to the priority of the claim.
The ‘conduct’ test in the Seventh Circuit, not the ‘accrual test,’ determines when a claim arose and whether it was discharged.
Another court strains to explain why costs incurred by disciplinary authorities were not in compensation for “actual pecuniary loss.”
