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06/04/2026 ...[more]Trustee Cannot Avoid Deed Because Every Letter Of the Notary’s Signature Was Not Fully Discernible
09/23/2025 ...[more]11th Circuit – Damages for False Imprisonment are Nondischargeable as Willful and Malicious Injury
08/05/2025 ...[more]Real Property Owned By Dissolved LLC Was Not Property Of Individual Member’s Bankruptcy Estate
06/28/2025 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. ...[more]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. ...[more]Homestead Exemption: Double Exemption Available Where Debtor Does Not Have Sole Ownership Of Residence
11/26/2024 ...[more]LaVie Care Centers (and 281 Related Entities) File Chapter 11 Petitions in the Northern District of Georgia
06/14/2024 ...[more]US Trustee Investigating Possible Scheme to Take Debtors’ Equity in Real Property in Multiple Cases; Lawyer Sanctioned
05/14/2024 ...[more]Section 523(a) Exceptions to Discharge Do Not Apply to Subchapter V Corporate Debtors
02/22/2024 ...[more]New Chapter 11 Filing Alert – Governors Gun Club Kennesaw, LLC
08/19/2022 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 – ...[more]In a Case of First Impression, 11th Circuit Rules “New Value” Can Be Both Preference Defense and Administrative Claim
08/02/2022 In Auriga Polymers, Inc. v. PMCM2, LLC, as Liquidating Trustee , No. 20-14647, 2022 WL 2800195 (11th Cir. ...[more]Judge Bonapfel – When Are Educational Loans Business Debts For Purposes of Qualifying for Chapter 7?
07/01/2022 ...[more]11th Circuit Rules On The Georgia Real Property Remedial Statute – Who Is A “Subscribing Witness?”
04/08/2022 ...[more]District Court Upholds Georgia Bankruptcy Court’s Restrictions On Chapter 7 Trustee Attorneys’ Fees
03/15/2022 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’ ...[more]Roth IRA Is Exempt Under New Georgia Exemption Laws, 11th Circuit Says in Case of First Impression
01/28/2022 ...[more]Can Debtor’s Counsel Also Represent A Non-Filing Spouse (Or Other Party) In A Rule 2004 Examination? Maybe.
08/18/2021 This is an issue that comes up fairly often, although normally no objections are made for a Rule 2004 examination . As long as the lawyer is not obstructive, it is usually not worth the additional time and expense of filing an objection. In In re Craig ...[more]Georgia Bankruptcy Judge Paul Bonapfel Lowers Boom On Chapter 7 Trustee and Counsel Fees
02/27/2021 ...[more]