By Lawrence R. Ahern, III, Brown & Ahern (Nashville, TN) Introduction Analyzing the new "COVID-19 discharge" provision added to Chapter 131 by Congress on December 27 as part of the coronavirus emergency response legislation, the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California decided in In re Ritter2 that, in order to receive such a discharge, debtors must still comply...
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Debtor not barred from claiming Vermont homestead. In an analysis of a pre- bankruptcy divorce decree, the court found that the decree and a contempt order did not create collateral estoppel or res judicata bars to the debtor/former husband’s claim of homestead exemption under Vermont law. In re Kadoch, 528 B.R. 626 (Bankr. D. Vermont 2015).
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The Honorable William Houston Brown retired in 2006 as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, and he had been designated to sit . . .
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