Who Wins: A Chapter 13 Trustee or an Unrecorded Divorce Decree?

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The Architecture of New Orleans

By Thomas M. White

Garden District

New Orleans is a city renowned for its French traditions and culture. In food, street names, and even the entire basis for civil law, the influence of France is always visible. It is ironic, then, that the most loved and well known neighborhood of New Orleans, the . . . → Read More: The Architecture of New Orleans

Ms. Ps & Qs

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Sua Sponte

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What a Way to Turn a Buck: Government–Contracted Student Loan Debt Collectors’ Profits Reach $1 Billion in 2011

Bloomberg News reported last week that private governmental contractors generated approximately $1 billion last year in their efforts to collect $67 billion in defaulted student loans. Approximately 5 million federal education loan borrowers are in default. These private debt collectors have been retained by the Education Department and are facing allegations that they are . . . → Read More: What a Way to Turn a Buck: Government–Contracted Student Loan Debt Collectors’ Profits Reach $1 Billion in 2011

On The Record With The AO

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The Means Test – Line by Line Line for Chapter 7s Continued – Part V

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When Did the Chapter 13 Trustee Become the Domestic Court Magistrate? How a Simple Agreed Entry Can Avoid That Role

By Keith Rucinski, Chapter 13 Trustee

Author: Keith Rucinski

State domestic law issues are by far the largest segment of state law which interacts with federal bankruptcy law.  It is that intersection that Chapter 13 Trustees often find themselves in while conducting 341 meetings and administering the case.

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Hanover Nat. Bank v. Moyses, 186 U.S. 181 (1902)

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Notices of Intent in New Jersey Post Guillaume

By: Jaime Ackerman, Esq. and Brian C. Nicholas, Esq. of Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC of Mountainside, NJ

In 1995 New Jersey’s legislature enacted the Fair Foreclosure Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:50-53et seq., which was designed not only to afford additional protections to borrowers but also to streamline and expedite the handling of residential foreclosures.  One . . . → Read More: Notices of Intent in New Jersey Post Guillaume