Plan Confirmation

Circuits Split on Allowing Debtors to Cure Chapter 13 Plan Defaults After Five Years

Tenth Circuit splits with the Third and Seventh Circuits on allowing a debtor to cure defaults after a five-year plan has ended.

Chapter 13 Debtors Keep Windfalls with No Connection to Assets on the Filing Date

Taking sides with the minority on a split, bankruptcy judges in Kansas allow chapter 13 debtors to retain windfalls acquired after filing.

Speeding Through Chapter 11: An Overview of Expedited Prepackaged Bankruptcies and Why Critics Are Flat Wrong

Sept 2021

Circuit Split on U.S. Trustee Fees Likely Won’t Reach the Supreme Court Until Fall 2022

Judge Hoffman sets up Sixth Circuit to opine on the circuit split regarding the constitutionality of the 2018 increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system.

Ensuring the Comparability of Comparable Company Multiples

Sept 2021

Amended Chapter 13 Plan Allowed to Cure Post-Petition Mortgage Defaults

Courts are split on whether a debtor may amend a chapter 13 plan to cure post-petition defaults on a principal residence.

Judge Sontchi Cuts Off U.S. Trustee Fees on Confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan

Closing a chapter 11 case after confirmation to avoid U.S. Trustee fees won’t be necessary if the ruling by Judge Sontchi holds up.

Blackjewel and Hartshorne: Overcoming § 1129(a)(9) Obstacles

Aug 2021

Views from the Bench: Confirmation Roundtables: Competing Interests in Today’s Chapter 11

Debt from a Defunct Business Can Help to Qualify for Subchapter V

Part-time self-employment, coupled with debt from a defunct business, qualified the debtor for reorganization under Subchapter V of chapter 11.