By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville) Rule 3002.1 gives the Bankruptcy Court authority to impose sanctions, including punitive sanctions, as part of the rules-granted authority to award “other appropriate relief.” (Rodriguez) Blanco v. Bayview Loan Servicing LLC (In re Blanco), 2021 WL 4190170 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. September 14, 2021) Case...
Post-Marrama: Allowing Chapter 13 Trustees to Unwind a Debtor’s Conversion to Chapter 7
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By Brian T. Cumings, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon and Moody (Austin, TX)
For Chapter 13 trustees, the “notice conversion” permitted under Bankruptcy Rule 1017(f) can be frustrating. In a typical situation, notice conversion is an understandable and reasonable mechanism by which debtors who have tried and failed to pay their creditors through a Chapter 13 bankruptcy can shift course and proceed through Chapter 7 liquidation. In certain instances, however, notice conversion is a litigation strategy by which debtors who have acted in bad faith attempt to either lose themselves in the cracks or escape the (usually) more aggressive . . .
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