An unsecured junior lien on debtor's residential real estate may be avoided after the debtor completes Chapter 13 plan payments. The bankruptcy court's Sanders decision, interpreting Nobelman, permits wholly unsecured liens to be stripped off.
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At trial, the plaintiff established the elements of § 523(a)(2)(A), including his justifiable reliance on the debtor's continuing misrepresentations about investment profits, inducing the plaintiff to continue to provide money to the debtor.
The court denied the trustee's effort to set aside an allegedly preferential transfer because the property transferred belonged to an LLC, not to debtor. It was not property of the bankruptcy estate and the transfer was not attributable to the debtor.
The trustee's good-faith objection to debtors' housing expense was overruled, but questions as to the accuracy of Schedules I & J and whether debtors could afford to pay for a boat and camper and still pay unsecured creditors precluded confirmation.
Discharge was denied under § 727(a)(4)(A) to a debtor who made a false oath by failing to disclose on his statement of financial affairs his receipt of sizable tax refunds, settlement proceeds and a loan, and his transfer of those monies to other entities
A motion for stay pending appeal by a vendor that sold the debtor's products and was subject to personal injury claims as a result was denied. The debtor may use liability policy proceeds only pursuant to a confirmed plan, so the vendors are protected.
Court grants motion for stay pending appeal of three orders granting a compromise between debtor and three insurers allowing the insurers to pay proceeds of policies owed to debtor and enjoining any party from bringing a claim against insurers.
Because the debtor could have claimed a valid exemption in certain garnished funds in state court, an intervening preferential transfer did not affect his ability to claim a personal property exemption in the recovered funds held by the trustee.
The court found the debtor to be a shareholder in a business and therefore entitled to receive a portion of the sale proceeds of the business. The co-owner's sale of the business without revealing the details to the debtor was a breach of fiduciary duty.
The parties' divorce decree and property settlement agreement created a non-dischargeable obligation for the debtor to hold his ex-wife harmless on any amounts owed to the bank, including the repayment of a loan from her parents to pay off the bank.