Upon conversion to chapter 7, the homestead exemption claimed on the original chapter 13 case, maintains the status it held on the day of the filing of the bankruptcy petition.
11 U.S.C. § 1171(b) is substantially the same as section 205(b) of the prior Bankruptcy Act. Accordingly, the decision of the First Circuit in In re Boston Maine Corp., 634 F.2d 1359 (1st Cir....
The bankruptcy court misapplied the standard for fraudulent intent under § 523(a)(2)(A) -- best articulated by our decision in Palmacci v. Umpierrez, 121 F.3d 781 (1st Cir. 1997) -- which it was...
Payments made by debtors to a university for a child's college education are per se constructively fraudulent transfers under section 548 when the payments were made when the parents were...
The Court of Appeals rejected the PIEC's challenge to the bankruptcy court's conclusion that their attempt to assert unjust enrichment claims is an attempt to exercise "control" over the Avoidance...
