The Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower courts' ruling that the Debtor should be denied a discharge generally under 11 USC 727(a)(3) and (4), and denied a discharge as to particular debts owed to a...
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel upheld the bankruptcy court's findings that the debtor had defamed creditor and that the defamation constituted willful and malicious injury under...
The BAP affirmed the bankruptcy court's ruling that the Debtor held legal title to the Property on the Petition Date, the deed recording violated the automatic stay, the denial of the stay...
The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's ruling against the debtor regarding alleged violations of the stay and discharge injunction against the loan servicer. ...
The 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel upheld the bankruptcy court's rulings granting relief from the automatic stay under section 362(d)(1) and (d)(4) and dismissing the chapter 13 case where...
The BAP, in affirming the bankruptcy court, held three things:
1) dismissals, even those brought under § 1307(b) requires a court to consider the § 349(a) possibility of dismissal with...
Presented with a creditor (CR) seeking to avoid the discharge of debt allegedly caused by a nondebtor spouse's fraud, the BAP found that the CR's non-dischargeability complaint had been...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; Christopher M. Klein; and Laura S. Taylor
A judgment entered by a California court against a debtor for fraud is entitled to preclusive effect, even if the debtor did not participate in the state-court trial, so long as there is an...
The BAP held that a standing trustee is entitled to collect the statutory fee under § 586(e) upon receipt of each payment under the Chapter 13 Plan and is not required to disgorge the fee if the...
Judge(s):
Honorable Lafferty, Spraker, and Gan, Bankruptcy Judges
A Chapter 13 debtor who does not make all plan payments within the five-year maximum plan period is not eligible for a discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 1328(a), even if the debtor makes the payments...
