By William Houston Brown, Editor/Adviser, Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education On December 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted the City of Chicago’s petition for certiorari, 2019 WL 6880702, from the decision of the Seventh Circuit at 926 F.3d 916 (7th Cir. June 19, 2019). The Seventh Circuit’s decision was analyzed in a prior article on this website. In its decision,...
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By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee
Lee v. Walro, 508 B.R. 399 (S.D. Ind., March 31, 2014) (Pratt). To determine what portion of a tax refund, payable jointly to a debtor and a debtor’s non-filing spouse, is property of a Chapter 7 estate, the Court must apply the “separate filings rule” and analyze what each taxpayer would have received had they filed separate tax returns.
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Lester and Brenda Lee filed a joint tax return for the 2011 tax year and were scheduled . . .
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