Plan Confirmation

Recent Confirmation Developments

Circuits Are Now Split on the Constitutionality of the 2018 Increase in U.S. Trustee Fees

The Second Circuit split with the Fourth and Fifth Circuits by holding that the increase in fees for the U.S. Trustee system was unconstitutional because it was not imposed simultaneously in the two states with bankruptcy administrators.

Bankruptcy Lenders in Command

Sept 2021

Chapter 13 Debtor May (Sometimes) Contribute to Retirement Plans

A chapter 13 debtor was permitted to make a fraction of the pension contributions permitted by the IRS Code.

Optimizing Benefits from Domestic-Support Claims for Both the Debtor and Creditor

July 2021

West Virginia Judge Allows Conversion to Subchapter V After Deadlines Passed

When drafting a statute, Congress cannot ‘think of every single esoteric possibility,’ Judge Mignault says.