Courts have recently been wrestling with, and finding creative ways of interpreting, the un-numbered “hanging paragraph” at the end of 11 U.S.C. §1325(a) in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA).

If the trustee or an unsecured creditor objects to the debtor’s plan, the court may not approve it unless it provides that all of the debtor’s projected disposable income for either a three-or five-year period, depending on the debtor’s

The Judicial Conference has approved Official Forms 22A and 22C for use in making the means test calculation in chapter 7 (OF 22A) and determining disposable incom

Once the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) goes into effect, a critical computation for any consumer bankruptcy case will be