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Georgia’s New $50,000 Homestead Exemption (And Why It’s Really Worth More)
Is Trustee Required to Disclose Information Voluntarily Provided by a Creditor on a Confidential Basis?
Trustee Cannot Avoid Deed Because Every Letter Of the Notary’s Signature Was Not Fully Discernible
11th Circuit – Damages for False Imprisonment are Nondischargeable as Willful and Malicious Injury
Real Property Owned By Dissolved LLC Was Not Property Of Individual Member’s Bankruptcy Estate
In In re Kimball , Ch. 7 Case No. 24-11036-pmb, 667 B.R. 487 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 2025) ( click here for pdf ) , the Lender foreclosed on commercial property owned by a limited liability company on August 6, 2024. ... Read full article
Judge Coleman – Vehicle Cannot Be Exempted as Tool of Trade
In In re Cady , Ch. 7 No. 24-41026-ejc, 2025 WL 1587266 (Bankr. S.D. Ga. June 4, 2025) the issue was whether the Debtor, a real estate agent, could claim an exemption in her vehicle as a tool of the trade. ... Read full article
Homestead Exemption: Double Exemption Available Where Debtor Does Not Have Sole Ownership Of Residence
LaVie Care Centers (and 281 Related Entities) File Chapter 11 Petitions in the Northern District of Georgia
US Trustee Investigating Possible Scheme to Take Debtors’ Equity in Real Property in Multiple Cases; Lawyer Sanctioned
Bankruptcy and Divorce (Vol. 73) – Agreements to Transfer Property
Section 523(a) Exceptions to Discharge Do Not Apply to Subchapter V Corporate Debtors
The Discharge Injunction – Violations and Damages
Obituary of Judge Walter Homer Drake, Jr.
New Chapter 11 Filing Alert – Governors Gun Club Kennesaw, LLC
The Governors Gun Club of Kennesaw filed a Chapter 11 case in the Northern District of Georgia on August 17, 2022. Case No. 22-20787-jrs. The reason for the filing, as stated in pleadings filed with the Court – ... Read full article
In a Case of First Impression, 11th Circuit Rules “New Value” Can Be Both Preference Defense and Administrative Claim
In Auriga Polymers, Inc. v. PMCM2, LLC, as Liquidating Trustee , No. 20-14647, 2022 WL 2800195 (11th Cir. ... Read full article
Judge Bonapfel – When Are Educational Loans Business Debts For Purposes of Qualifying for Chapter 7?
11th Circuit Rules On The Georgia Real Property Remedial Statute – Who Is A “Subscribing Witness?”
District Court Upholds Georgia Bankruptcy Court’s Restrictions On Chapter 7 Trustee Attorneys’ Fees
In this lengthy post , we discuss Judge Paul Bonapfel’s 73-page Order in which he skewered the fee application of a Chapter 7 Trustee and effectively changed the way all judges in the Northern District of Georgia view fee applications for Trustees’ ... Read full article
Roth IRA Is Exempt Under New Georgia Exemption Laws, 11th Circuit Says in Case of First Impression