Rochelle's Daily Wire

Judge Hoffman explains when objections are or aren’t required for exemptions covering ‘100% of FMV’ under the current form 106C.

Courts are split on whether chapter 7 trustees can be paid on another theory when the trustee had made no distributions to creditors under Section 326(a).

The debtor’s duty to land the best price for an asset can overcome the winning bidder’s expectation that sale procedures will be enforced rigorously.

A district judge in Ohio declined to sit as an appellate court by deciding whether a bankruptcy court in another state had properly ‘spread’ the automatic stay.

‘Obtained by’ legal proceedings, a consent judgment is still a judgment lien that can be avoided if it impairs an exemption.

Ohio’s Bankruptcy Judge Nami Khorrami sides with the minority on a circuit split that the Supreme Court ducked in 2009.

Judge Mary Ann Whipple declined to engraft a ‘use’ restriction onto the broad meaning of ‘motor vehicle’ in Ohio.

Following the 2005 amendments, satisfying either the subject test or the objective test will prove the ‘ordinary course’ defense to a preference, Judge Hoffman says.

Judge Beth Buchanan decided that the ‘totality of the circumstances’ test for ‘abuse’ doesn’t permit disregarding the exemption for Social Security benefits.

An exculpation clause in a chapter 11 plan protected the owner’s counsel from a malpractice suit.