Bankruptcy Blogs

After Bankruptcy, are you getting your mortgage statements?

05/15/21

After Bankruptcy, are you getting your mortgage statements? After you file bankruptcy, you are still supposed to keep getting your mortgage statements.  But, are you? This question came up at the 29th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.  (I’m at that meeting this week, which was supposed to be in Orlando, […]

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The $900 Million Back Office Error

05/14/21

I love this story -- a bank erroneously sends money to a bunch of lenders who are angry with the bank and the debtor for other reasons. The bank discovers the computer error and asks for its money back. The angry lenders refuse to give back what was clearly an erroneous deposit. There is litigation. And the court says to the lenders who received the erroneous deposit: You can keep the money.  

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