by William Houston Brown, Adviser, Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education, Inc. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on August 3, 2021, on student loans, and during the Committee hearing, Senator Durbin, Chair of the Committee, stated that he would be introducing an Act to amend student loan discharge provisions in the Bankruptcy Code. That Act was subsequently introduced by...
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By John P. Gustafson, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Northern District of Ohio
The District Court has issued the latest decision in a line of cases that have gone to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and now, on remand, is working its way back up the appellate ladder.
The case began with the debtor, Wayne Eric Puffer (“Mr. Puffer”), signing a fee agreement on April 5, 2007. About a year later, on February 29, 2008, Mr. Puffer filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. Berliner v. Pappalardo, In re Puffer, 453 B.R. 14, 18-19 (D . . .
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