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What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week - Law360

07/11/2025 What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week  Law360 [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

Case Summary: The Villages Health Chapter 11 - Bondoro

07/11/2025 Case Summary: The Villages Health Chapter 11  Bondoro [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

Sunnova's $90M Loan With Release For KKR Gets Judge's OK - Law360

07/11/2025 Sunnova's $90M Loan With Release For KKR Gets Judge's OK  Law360 [more]
Tags: News, Reorganizations

Home Depot rival files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to sell assets - MSN

07/11/2025 Home Depot rival files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to sell assets  MSN [more]
Tags: 363 Sales, News

Nursing home operator Genesis Healthcare files for bankruptcy - Healthcare Dive

07/11/2025 Nursing home operator Genesis Healthcare files for bankruptcy  Healthcare Dive [more]
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RPG: Green Ronin Launches Crowdfunding Campaign For Legal Defense In Diamond Bankruptcy - Bell of Lost Souls

07/11/2025 RPG: Green Ronin Launches Crowdfunding Campaign For Legal Defense In Diamond Bankruptcy  Bell of Lost Souls [more]
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Judge OKs $30M emergency loan for bankrupt owner of three CT hospitals, as payroll crisis looms - CT Insider

07/11/2025 Judge OKs $30M emergency loan for bankrupt owner of three CT hospitals, as payroll crisis looms  CT Insider [more]
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Colombian lender’s Chapter 11 converted to Chapter 7 in New York - Latin Lawyer

07/11/2025 Colombian lender’s Chapter 11 converted to Chapter 7 in New York  Latin Lawyer [more]
Tags: Liquidation, News

Embezzlement case a legal yarn - Aspen Daily News

07/11/2025 Embezzlement case a legal yarn  Aspen Daily News [more]
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Chester-based nursing home operator with Berks locations files for bankruptcy protection - WFMZ.com

07/11/2025 Chester-based nursing home operator with Berks locations files for bankruptcy protection  WFMZ.com [more]
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Blogs

The Use of Trusts in Mortgage Loan Financing

06/25/2025 Trusts are being used more often for financing mortgage loans, which can be an effective way to optimize asset management and minimize lender risk. Key Benefits of Using Trusts in Mortgage Loan Financing Titling Trusts for Mortgage Loans: A Titling Trust holds the legal title to mortgage [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, BankruptcyandRestructuringBlog, mortgage loan, trusts

Real Property Owned By Dissolved LLC Was Not Property Of Individual Member’s Bankruptcy Estate

06/25/2025 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. The LLC, in turn, was owned by an individual Debtor who had filed a Chapter 13 case on August [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, automatic stay, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, chapter 7, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, limited liability company, llc, Northern District Cases, property of the estate, real property

Judge Coleman – Vehicle Cannot Be Exempted as Tool of Trade

06/17/2025 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. In addition to claiming vehicle and wild card exemptions, Debtor argued that her vehicle was [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, chapter 7, Consumer Bankruptcy Guide, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, Northern District Cases

Mediation in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases

05/16/2025 TV lawyers are constantly heading into trial, sometimes after seeing the file for the first time that morning. On television, the clients never seem to worry about how they are going to pay their lawyers to go to trial. The reality is different in real life, especially when dealing with consumer [more]
Tags: ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs, consumer, mediation

When Should A Corporation File Chapter 7?

05/04/2025 When an individual files for Chapter 7 relief, the goal is to keep their exempt property and discharge their dischargable debts. A corporation does not receive either of these benefits in Chapter 7, meaning that it turns over all of its property to be liquidated and still owes the remainder of its [more]
Tags: ATexasBankruptcyLawyersBlog, Bankruptcy Blogs, breach of fiduciary duty, chapter 7, corporation

Official Bankruptcy Forms Revised To Reflect April 1, 2025 Dollar Amount Adjustments Now In Effect

04/01/2025 As discussed in an earlier post called “Jumping Up: Bankruptcy Code Dollar Amounts Will Increase On April 1, 2025,” various dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code and related statutory provisions were increased for cases filed on or after today, April 1, 2025. This chart has a list of all of the [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, BAPCPA, Business Bankruptcy Issues, BusinessBankruptcyBlog, Chapter 11, chapter 7, employee, preference, proof of claim, Recent Developments

Jumping Up: Bankruptcy Code Dollar Amounts Will Increase On April 1, 2025

02/05/2025 An official notice from the Judicial Conference of the United States was just published announcing that certain dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code will be adjusted upward by 13.2004%, perhaps the largest increase to date. Inflation adjustments are made to certain Bankruptcy Code [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, BAPCPA, Business Bankruptcy Issues, BusinessBankruptcyBlog, Chapter 11, employee, preference, Recent Developments

Jumping Up: Bankruptcy Code Dollar Amounts Will Increase On April 1, 2025

02/05/2025 An official notice from the Judicial Conference of the United States was just published announcing that certain dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code will be adjusted upward by 13.2004%, perhaps the largest increase to date. Inflation adjustments are made to certain Bankruptcy Code dollar [more]
Tags: Bankruptcy Blogs, BAPCPA, Business Bankruptcy Issues, BusinessBankruptcyBlog, Chapter 11, employee, preference, Recent Developments

Homestead Exemption: Double Exemption Available Where Debtor Does Not Have Sole Ownership Of Residence

11/26/2024 In In re Antman, 2024 WL 4786241, Ch. 13 Case No. 23-60317-ejc (Bankr. S.D. Ga. Nov. 14, 2024), the debtor’s father died in 1996 and in his will left his house to debtor and her three siblings in equal shares. Debtor and her husband had lived in the house since 1999. Debtor filed a Chapter 13 [more]
Tags: Atlanta bankruptcy, Atlanta Bankruptcy Lawyer, bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Blogs, Bankruptcy Exemptions, chapter 7, exemptions, Georgia bankruptcy, Georgia Bankruptcy Lawyer, Georgia State Cases, GeorgiaBankruptcyBlog, homestead, Homestead Exemptions, Middle District Cases, Northern District Cases, Southern District Cases

Don’t Pay Fact Witnesses (With a Surprising Bankruptcy Twist)

07/18/2024 I am straying off the strict topic of Bankruptcy law and into an area of general litigation and attorney ethics that has come up in one of my pending cases.  When it is OK for a lawyer to pay, or offer to pay, a witness in a pending case? The common sense answer that probably comes to mind [more]
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