The court denied confirmation of the debtors' Chapter 12 plan because it was not feasible and it proposed to amortize short-term notes secured by personal property over 25 years. That lengthier term deprived the lender of the benefit of its bargain.

The court denied the defendant's motion for summary judgment, finding that numerous issues of fact existed on the elements of whether fraudulent transfers had occurred under Nebraska law and bankruptcy law.

The court reduced the fees awarded to counsel for the committee of unsecured creditors in a Chapter 11 case in which a trustee had been appointed. The court found the committee had unnecessarily involved itself in matters better left to the trustee.

An unsecured junior lien on the debtor's residential real estate may be avoided after the debtor completes Chapter 13 plan payments. The case law in the Eighth Circuit, interpreting Nobelman, permits wholly unsecured liens to be stripped off.

The fees and expenses approved for the counsel to the unsecured creditors' committee were administrative claims to be paid on the effective date of the debtor's plan. The debtor did not timely pay those claims, so committee counsel obtained a text order granting its motion for a final order awarding administrative fees and expenses that must be paid under the plan.

The court denied a creditor's late-filed motion for extension of time to file a dischargeability complaint, ruling that strict compliance with the deadline was necessary and the creditor had not shown that the deadline should be equitably tolled.

Debtor's personal guarantee of a lease did not apply to obligations under a later lease extension agreement. The landlord was not prejudiced by lack of bankruptcy notice. Any obligations (contingent or otherwise) to the landlord were discharged.

The court denied the administrative expense applications filed by the debtor's equity interest holders. The applicants were unable to establish that their involvement in the case provided a "substantial contribution" to the estate as required by § 503(b)(3)(D). The equitable "common fund" doctrine did not provide a remedy because the movants did not demonstrate any "dominating reasons of justice" to invoke it.

The court discharged the debt to the bank. Although the debtor listed as collateral certain items he did not own but was in the process of buying, there was no evidence of intent to deceive, nor did the bank rely on that representation in making the loan.

The court denied the debtor's motion to extend the automatic stay to a non-debtor because the debtor was not taking into consideration the rights of the non-debtor's creditors. The collection action against the non-debtor was not a core proceeding.