Plan Confirmation

Revesting on Discharge in Chapter 13 Can’t Be Mandated, Fourth Circuit Says

Local rules and local standard plans cannot force a chapter 13 debtor to disregard one of the options in Section 1327 and require revesting of estate assets on discharge.
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Another Bankruptcy Judge Decided that Sub V Classes with No Votes Aren’t Accepting

Bankruptcy Judge Paul Bonapfel differed with two judges in Houston by holding that a nonaccepting class in Subchapter V means that a plan must be confirmed in cramdown.

Preserving Defensive Setoff Rights Doesn’t Require Filing a Claim, Judge Glenn Says

Defensive setoff rights are not discharged by chapter 11 confirmation, even when no proof of claim was filed.

Ninth Circuit Employs Equity to Avoid Following the Supreme Court’s Taylor and Schwab

Claiming 100% of FMV didn’t enable debtors to exempt more than the statutory cap when there had been no objection to the exemption claim.
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