Bankruptcy Courts Grapple with the “COVID-19 Discharge”

Bankruptcy Courts Grapple with the “COVID-19 Discharge” – Appendix A

Bankruptcy Courts Grapple with the “COVID-19 Discharge”

APPENDIX A

11 U.S.C. § 1328
Discharge

(Text added by CAA, effective: December 27, 2020 and subject
to one-year sunset, appears in italics.)
(Mandatory and precatory directions to the court, critical to the statutory
analysis in In re Ritter, appears in bold.)

(a) Subject to subsection (d), as soon as practicable after completion by the debtor of all payments under the plan . . .

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