By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Standing Trustee (Nashville, TN) It constitutes an unfair discrimination, violative of 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(1), for a Chapter 13 plan which would pay more to a student loan than to the remaining general unsecured creditors. (Somers) In re Kane, 603 B.R. 491 (Bankr. C.D. Kan. June 18, 2019) Case Summary Ronald Kane filed...
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Means Test: Current monthly income includes pay earned in six-month look-back, even though received afterwards. Concluding that the date of receipt of pay was not determinative, § 101(10A)’s definition of current monthly income included pay that “derived” during the six months. Also, reviewing what other courts had held, the debtor’s prepetition wage garnishment was not a deductible expense, since the automatic stay prevented the garnishment from being an ongoing expense. And, the debtors’ monthly student loan payments were not a special circumstance rebutting the presumption . . .
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