Plan Confirmation

Everything You Need to Know About Liquidating Chapter 11 Plans

Business Reorganization/Legislation

Mortgages Command Priority over Legal Fees in a Chapter 13 Plan

Plan can’t cause default on a home mortgage to pay a debtor’s lawyer first.

Paid in Full but Impaired, Lender Entitled to Pendency Interest at Default Rate

9th Cir. BAP precludes using ‘equitable discretion’ to lower lender’s interest rate.

Plan in Suspended Animation when Chapter 13 Case Converted to Chapter 7

Judge ducks ability to reconvert previously converted case to chapter 13.

Chicago Judge Splits with Ninth Circuit on Interest for Unsecured Claims in Surplus Plan

Default interest rate given to unsecured creditors in full-payment chapter 11 plan.

Second Circuit May Be Trimming Back Doctrine of Equitable Mootness

Another circuit joins the trend toward limiting the doctrine of equitable mootness.

Consumer Potpourri: Student Loan Discharge, Surrender Issues, Section 109(e); Chapter 13 Plan Modifications