Rochelle's Daily Wire

Death is a reason for waiving the requirement for completing a financial management course.

BAP doesn’t allow debtors to appeal when a trustee sells their home out from underneath them in a short sale.

The Supreme Court on June 13 declined to hear two bankruptcy cases in the term to begin next October.

Local rules require lawyers to prepare and fill all required chapter 7 papers regardless of whether the debtor pays the fee or agrees to pay the fee.

Cutting back on knee-jerk invocation of arbitration, the Supreme Court says that agreements to arbitrate are no more enforceable than ordinary contracts.

In a case headed for the Tenth Circuit, upholding the dignity of the court overcame the automatic stay.

Even if a dischargeability suit is based on a contract, the winner is not entitled to fee-shifting if the court rules on noncontract issues.

Finally, a circuit court cites Taggart to help a debtor enforce the discharge injunction.

The Ninth Circuit equates nonjudicial foreclosure with bankruptcy discharge in terms of the effect on deficiencies following foreclosure.

The Affordable Care Act’s ‘individual mandate’ was a tax measured by income, thus giving the IRS a priority tax claim.