By Stacey A. O’Stafy, Staff Attorney, Office of the Chapter 13 Trustee Faye D. English (Columbus, OH) An above median Chapter 13 debtor settles a workers’ compensation claim and wants to use the exempt settlement proceeds1 to pay off her 100% dividend plan in month 38 – can she? In this simple scenario, the answer is yes. Pursuant to 11...
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By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee
In re Rogers, 494 B.R. 664 (Bankr. E.D. N.C., July 8, 2013) (Leonard). A mortgage obligation treated in a debtors’ plan as current and paid directly by the debtors is nonetheless discharged pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 1328(a) and the mortgage creditor cannot pursue the deficiency that might have accrued when the debtors subsequently defaulted on their payments.
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The debtors filed their Chapter 13 petition in November of 2008. At that time, the . . .
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