In an unusual collaborative proceeding initiated by two judges from the Southern District of Texas and concluded by a third, the Court has taken the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee to task for following the guidance of the former judge and has effectively ... Read full article
In In re Pete , Ch. 13 Case No. 15-63725-JRS, 2015 WL 8540438 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. Dec. ... Read full article
Temple Law Review will soon publish a volume honoring Bil ... Read full article
Jordan E. Bublick is a Miami personal bankruptcy lawyer whose practice is limited to chapter 13 bankruptcy (reorganization of debt) and chapter 7 bankruptcy (discharge of debt). Jordan E. Bublick has over 25 years of experience in filing personal bankrupty ... Read full article
Acknowledging that the statutory language "does not say expressly" what should happen, the Supreme Court nevertheless ruled that undistributed funds held by the Chapter 13 trustee should be returned to the debtor following a conversion. The ... Read full article
In case you haven't seen it, the SCOTUS issued its unanimous opinion in Harris today, holding that postpetition wages held by the Chapter 13 trustee at the time a case is converted to Chapter 7 must be returned to the debtor. ... Read full article
Should liability under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) lie against a creditor who submits a proof of claim past the statute of limitations in a consumer bankruptcy case? ... Read full article
Twenty-five years ago, the Supreme Court held that a Bankruptcy Court had the authority to order the IRS to allocate payments made "voluntarily" by a Debtor when necessary to effectuate a successful reorganization. United States v. Energy ... Read full article
How is it that I never find the time to blog? My answer would be that I simply do not have the time. But of course I have the same hours in a day as my co-bloggers. I could argue that I have more demands on my time, but I know very well that we are all ... Read full article
11. Eviction - to buy a few more days 1. Urban Legend - doing it inappropriately because "everybody at work did it" ... Read full article
(305) 891-4055 - Free Initial Consultation - Office: Kendall - Aventura - Jordan E. Bublick - 25 Years Experience - www.bublicklaw.com ... Read full article
Filing for bankruptcy is actually a very serious step and, unless properly approached, may lead to unfortunate consequences. Bankruptcy is filed in a U.S Bankruptcy Court - a Court that actually has so much power that it can actually stop the U.S. Supreme ... Read full article
Former Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler died last week. ... Read full article
Chapter 13 trustees handle millions of dollars in plan payments every year. At some point in likely a sizable portion of cases, the trustee accumulates these payments instead of distributing the funds to creditors. What happens if a debtor's case is ... Read full article
Larry Summers has a v ery interesting book review of Atif Mian and Amir Sufi's book House of Debt in the Financial Times. What's particularly interesting about the book review is not so much what Summers has to say about Mian and Sufi, as his ... Read full article
In the case of Hope v. Acorn Financial, Inc ., Case No. 12-10709, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 19661 (11th Cir. September 26, 2013) ( click here for .pdf of opinion ) the Court addressed whether 11 U.S.C. ... Read full article
By: Carly S. Krupnick St. John’s Law Student American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff ... Read full article
In many cases, you can stop a mortgage foreclosure by filing for a mortgage modification under the HAMP program. The application for a mortgage modification can be filed directly with the mortgage lender or was part of a chapter 13 bankruptcy you may file. ... Read full article
