By Lawrence R. Ahern III, Brown & Ahern (Nashville, TN) Introduction – The Taggart Ruling Last year, the Ninth Circuit in In re Taggart1 ruled that an act in violation of the discharge injunction did not empower a court to find a creditor in contempt, if the creditor believed in good faith that the discharge injunction did not apply—even if...
From the Editor – Discharge Injunction
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Filing proof of claim in Chapter 13 violated discharge injunction in prior Chapter 7. Affirming in part the bankruptcy court’s decision, the creditor violated the discharge injunction in a prior Chapter 7 case by filing a proof of claim for the discharged debt in a subsequent Chapter 13. The discharged debt was a deficiency on a mobile home contract, and when the Chapter 13 case was filed, Green Tree was not listed as a creditor but it filed a proof of claim for the deficiency debt, resulting in . . .
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From the Editor – Discharge Injunction