News Topic: chapter 13

I have just finished reading Lois Lupica’s paper on her impressive consumer bankruptcy fee study .  This is a model of what empirical, law-and-society research should be – it combines data from electronic court records with focus groups and key player ... Read full article

The Fifth Circuit , covering Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, has joined the First Circuit in ruling that there is no per se prohibition against fee-only Chapter 13 filings. ... Read full article

Ezra Klein has joined the melee over the Obama Administration's housing policy failure with an apologia for the Administration.  Klein argues:  The right question on housing, then, is not whether the administration’s policies proved insufficient. ... Read full article

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A Motion to Impose Stay Will Require Going to See the Bankruptcy Judge ... Read full article

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Chapter 13 bankruptcy  offers debtors the opportunity to strip off a wholly unsecured second mortgage on their primary residence. Most courts have held that debtor’s mortgage is stripped from his house when he completes the Chapter 13 plan and gets his ... Read full article

The Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities held a symposium on " Courts: Representing and Contesting Ideologies of the Public Sphere " in 2011, and recently published papers from this event. ... Read full article

For the past couple of years, I've been thinking that cramdown is dead as a policy solution. But I was thinking about cramdown as requiring legislation. It doesn't. We could start doing it tomorrow. Under current bankruptcy law, a Chapter 13 ... Read full article

When a Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan gets confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court, the monthly payments you are supposed to pay to the trustee are set by the confirmation order. But they are not always set in stone. ... Read full article

Bankruptcy Lawyer Miami - Practice Limited to Bankruptcy Jordan E. Bublick Attorney at Law is a Board Certified Specialist in Consumer Bankruptcy Law (American Board of Certification) with offices located at 11645 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Florida and South ... Read full article

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Here's an interesting bankruptcy court decision about stripping down a partially unsecured mortgage on an investment property in a Chapter 13 case. ... Read full article

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