Consumer Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Courts Cannot Impose Punitive Contempt Sanctions, District Judge Says

Circuits split on power of bankruptcy courts to impose punitive or criminal contempt sanctions.

Faculty Biographies (2018 Alexander L. Paskay Memorial Bankruptcy Seminar)

Student Loans: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?

Consumer Potpourri: Hot Topics in Chapter 13

Case Law Update

BAP Declines to Rule on Waiver Resulting from Election to ‘Surrender’

Mortgage lender fails to export the Eleventh Circuit’s Failla decision to the Ninth Circuit.

Update: The Justices May Hear Another Bankruptcy Case, but Not Sunnyslope

Odds have risen that the high court will decide whether an oral statement about one asset is a statement of ‘financial condition’ that must be in writing.

Alabama District Judge Remains Antagonistic Toward Discharging Student Loans

ICRPs are always a factor in discharging student loans.