The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 ("BAPCPA") capped the amount of a homestead exemption which could be claimed by a debtor that acquired a homestead within 1,215 days prior to bankruptcy. Currently, the ... Read full article
It's been a slow month in the Fifth Circuit, my home Circuit with just two bankruptcy-related opinions. This month's cases involve a non-filing spouse who lost her homestead interest and a bank which provided "reasonably equivalent" ... Read full article
In 2000, Natalie Portman starred in "Where the Heart Is," a movie about a pregnant 17 year old girl who makes her home in a Walmart. Judge Stacey Jernigan recently had to decide a quite different case about home and the heart. The case involved ... Read full article
