From the Editor - Dismissal • NACTT Academy

From the Editor – Dismissal

By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)

Multiple causes for dismissal included failure to provide tax returns to trustee within seven days before meeting of creditors. Finding that debtor’s plans were infeasible and filed in bad faith, that debtor failed to make plan payments postpetition, that debtor failed to disclose prior bankruptcy filings of his wholly-owned subsidiaries and his interest in a limited liability company, as well a failure to provide copies of tax returns to the trustee within seven days prior to the first meeting of creditors, there were multiple causes for denial . . .

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