Reported at 5 B.R. 752. Zero-payment Ch. 13 plan doesn't violate good-faith requirement of Sec. 1328(a), even when used to discharge debts which are non-dischargeable in Ch. 7. Although this was a Bankruptcy Act case, court evaluated plan under '78 Code

Bankruptcy court denies creditor's motion for leave to file a second amended involuntary petition, holding the new allegations impermissible as not related to the original petition and the motion was made too near in time to the pretrial conference

Two steel buildings bolted to concrete foundations could not be moved without damage and therefore are fixtures. It was necessary to file financing statements with Registrar of Deeds, rather than with County Clerk, to perfect security interests in them

This is the district court order adopting the magistrate judge's recommendations & affirming the June 30, 1980, order of the bankruptcy court which denied defendant's motion to reconsider an order staying the enforcement of a previously entered judgement.

A debtor insurance agent who failed to collect and remit policy premiums may have breached his contractual obligations to the insurance company, but he did not violate any fiduciary duties between the parties. Accordingly, the debt is may be discharged

Reported at 46 B.R. 173. The bankruptcy court held that it lacked jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(F) to conduct a trial on a preference claim. The court concluded that vesting such jurisdiction in a non-Article III court was unconstitutional

An oral agreement to assign a security interest, followed by payment in full of the consideration, is sufficient to create a valid assignment. If the original security interest was perfected, it remains perfected in the assignee, pursuant to the U.C.C

The court found, after considering the circumstances, that an $18,000 judgment in ex-wife's favor in connection with the parties' divorce was a property settlement and not a debt in the nature of support. It therefore was dischargeable

Debtor reopened case to set aside default non-dischargeability judgments against him. The court held that the defaults could not be set aside where debtor reaffirmed the debts in writing & a state court issued a judgment in reliance on the default jmts

Real property in a spendthrift trust for the debtor's benefit property of the estate, as debtor held atlease an equitable interest in the property.  The effect on creditors of the spendthrift provision's restriction on alienation wasn't decided