Motions to Extend the Stay: Coming to a Casino – or a Chapter 13 – Somewhere Near You? Part I of II

By Zachary Fairlie, Law Clerk to the Hon. Cynthia A. Norton1, W.D. of Missouri at Kansas City
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Motions to extend the stay have been in the news lately. A primer on such motions may be helpful if you represent debtors in the right circumstances.

Background

Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(1), the filing of a petition stays “the commencement or continuation, including the issuance or employment of process, of a judicial, administrative . . .

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