GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog

The issue before the District Court in Putnall v. SunTrust Bank, No. 5:12-cv-481, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44187 (M.D. Ga.

Several popular restaurants in metro Atlanta filed Chapter 11 petitions in the Northern District of Georgia on June 13, 2013 after a $2.14 million judgment was entered in Cobb County Superior Court.  The entities filing include:

The Georgia Supreme Court recently answered certified questions from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals regarding whether a single premium annuity was exempt in a Chapter 7 case, where the annuity was purchased a year before filing with $220,000 in inherited funds.  A debtor’s transfer of $220,000 a year before filing Chapter 7 is certainly going to get the attention of a Trustee, and that was true of this case. However, in a significant win for the Debtor, the Georgia Supreme Court held that the annuity was exempt under Georgia law.  The case is Silliman v. Cassell, 2013 Ga.

The opinion of Judge Walker in the case of  In re Williams (Williams v. American Education Service, et al,), 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 2050, Adv. Proc. No. 12-5059 (Bankr. M.D. Ga. May 13, 2013) is a good example of the standard that must be met to discharge student loans. Debtor's must not only demonstrate "undue hardship" as required under 11 U.S.C.

In a case appealed from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case involving the definition of "defalcation" in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4).  The case, decided yesterday, May 13, 2013, is Randy Bullock v. BankChampaign NA, 2013 U.S. LEXIS 3521 (U.S.