Introduction In In re Village Apothecary, Inc.,1 the Sixth Circuit recently cut an attorney's fee by half, where the services were not successful. The panel held that the results obtained (or, actually, the lack of results) justified the dramatic reduction of the fees of attorneys for a Chapter 7 trustee. In Part 1, we looked at . . . It...
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Periodic alimony is domestic support obligation. The debtor filed an adversary proceeding contesting that his obligations under a divorce settlement were domestic support obligations. The portion of the obligation that was called periodic alimony was a domestic support obligation, which the debtor had treated as alimony deductions on tax returns. Moreover, that obligation met the factors, beyond merely the label in the settlement agreement, found in In re Benson, 441 Fed.Appx. 650 (11th Cir. 2011), and that obligation was a priority claim. However, another obligation to . . .
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