Consumer Bankruptcy

Giving Debtors Their Fair Shake: What Happens to Nonexempt Equity Increases in Debtors’ Homes in Converted Chapter 7 Cases

Feb 2025

The HAVEN Act Goes to Kindergarten: Lessons and Opportunities Five Years In

Jan 2025

Sub V Trustee in Chapter 11 Can’t Be Enlisted to Pursue Avoidance Actions

District judge decides that an individual debtor has standing to appeal conversion from Subchapter V of chapter 11 to chapter 7.

Barring Use of an Online Payment Platform Was an Automatic Stay Violation

Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner decided that a mortgage servicer must allow a chapter 13 debtor’s continued use of an online payment platform.

Bankruptcy Crossover

Judicial Immunity Can Protect a Trustee when Barton Doesn’t Apply, Circuit Says

When a trustee mistakenly seizes a nondebtor’s property, the Barton doctrine by itself doesn’t protect the trustee, but judicial immunity does.

Third-Party Releases After Purdue Pharma

Faculty Biographies (2024 Consumer Practice Extravaganza, Part 1)

Taking the Fear Out of Chapter 13

Combating the Creative Consecutive Filer