A Charlottesville U.S. District Court upholds a bankruptcy court decision requiring debtor to turn over to the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee the entire amount of debtors’ 2014 federal and state tax refunds; here, there are tax returns for two different ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A plaintiff who suffers from a chronic mental disability due to a childhood accident, and whose former coworker used undue influence to get money from plaintiff, is awarded $224,905.45 in damages by the Virginia Beach Circuit Court. Because the individual ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Steven C. Frucci Virginia Beach Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

A woman accused of taking advantage of a naïve companion has been rebuffed in her bid for bankruptcy protection. Galax school teacher Sandra Colston allegedly persuaded the victim to give more than $400,000 for Colston’s business projects. Now represented by ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black

Although a creditor timely noted an appeal from the bankruptcy court’s denial of the creditor’s challenge to discharge of a state court judgment against debtor, the creditor failed to appeal from the order disallowing the creditor’s proof of claim; saying ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A law firm that is owed $200,000 for its representation of debtor in bankruptcy proceedings stands in line behind nearly $1 million in secured tax claims in a Chapter 7 liquidation; under the version of 11 U.S.C. § 724(b)(2) in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Bankruptcy Judge Pamela A. Harris

Plaintiffs, both Afghani nationals who lived in Kabul, along with the defendant, who lived in Fairfax County, formed Rosta Construction Company. Rosta bid on and won a subcontract to build out seven buildings and the surrounding area at the Kabul ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Federal Courts Judge Robert G. Mayer Million-Dollar Verdicts

An Abingdon U.S. District Court says a bankruptcy court applied the wrong test to determine whether a debt owed to a creditor is nondischargeable due to the debtor’s listing of an incorrect address for the creditor on the schedule of ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Concluding that a Richmond lawyer continued to practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court after being suspended by the Virginia State Bar, a bankruptcy judge has exiled the lawyer from that court permanently. The judge found that attorney Kenneth W. Paciocco ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Federal Courts Judge Kevin R. Huennekens Lawyer Discipline Virginia State Bar

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court grants the U.S. Trustee’s motion to dismiss this chapter 7 case as presumptively abusive under 11 U.S.C. § 707(b)(2)(B), based on debtors’ ability to pay along with the totality of the circumstances; according to their ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Rebecca B. Connelly U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Two brothers who filed a petition in North Carolina to interpret their mother’s will, which proposed to “true up” a three-way division of her estate among her three sons, one of whom discharged an $87,000 debt to her in a ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Paul Black U.S. Bankruptcy Court