News Topic: Judge Craig Gargotta

 No attorney wants to see his name mentioned prominently in an opinion. However, if it has to happen, it's better if its something like this:  "Chance McGhee is an experienced and competent attorney that has practiced consumer bankruptcy law for ... Read full article

Divorce can be both expensive and traumatic for the parties going through it but in a few states, it can be expensive for the outside party causing the divorce. As one Texas debtor recently found out, causing a marriage to crumble in North Carolina can ... Read full article

A living trust is a legal document that states who you want to manage and distribute your assets if you're unable to do so, and who receives them when you pass away. ... Read full article

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled on a case involving a claim that a party was a non-statutory insider without ever deciding what legal test should apply.   U.S. Bank National Association v. The Village at Lakeridge, LLC , 138 S.Ct. ... Read full article

After sorting through conflicting precedents, Judge Craig Gargotta has ruled that a chapter 7 debtor who owned a homestead property on the date of bankruptcy and claimed the property as exempt did not lose the exemption when the property was sold and ... Read full article

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This is an article about the end of a Chapter 11 case.  As the Doors put it: This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end ... Read full article

This is a paper that I did for the Austin Bar Association summarizing the Texas cases applying Stern v. Marshall to date.   Please note that where the holding is indented, I am directly quoting the opinion.   I also used the following key for highlighting ... Read full article

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In law school, students cope with concepts of subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction and stating a cause of action in civil procedure class. When they move on to bankruptcy class, they must try to make sense of the constitutionality of ... Read full article

The Supreme Court's decision in Schwab v. Reilly , 130 S.Ct. 2652 (2010) last term provoked a lot of concern about the finality of exemptions. Under Taylor v. ... Read full article