A Charlottesville U.S. District Court says a bankruptcy court did not err in dismissing a chapter 13 debtor’s objection to a claim filed by a bank, whose entire debt for debtor’s Connecticut real estate was listed as unsecured. Debtor’s schedule ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

In this litigation arising out of the chapter 7 bankruptcy of Starlight Group LLC, a real estate investment entity formed in 2004, the Alexandria U.S. District Court upholds a bankrupt­cy court decision finding that the real estate agent who founded ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A chapter 13 debtor may not exempt under Va. Code § 34-29 or Va. Code § 34-4 post-petition income available to him after he repaid a retirement fund loan; however, the Alexandria U.S. Bankruptcy Court says debtor may make monthly ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Brian F. Kenney U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Although debtor encumbered her el­derly mother-in-law’s home for debtor’s loans and defaulted on a Confessed Judgment Note she signed after the mother-in-law obtained a reverse mort­gage in order to stay in the home, and despite debtor’s “disturbing pattern of fiscally ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Stephen C. St. John U.S. Bankruptcy Court

A lawyer for a chapter 13 debtor who did not timely file an Amended Plan due to her acknowledged “oversight” loses the benefit of the Local Rules’ “No- Look Fee” that presumes a $5,000 fee is reasonable; the Newport News ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro U.S. Bankruptcy Court

Debtor’s former wife loses her claim in Richmond U.S. Bankruptcy Court for damages under an Indemnity Provision of the parties’ 2009 Property Settle­ment Agreement, as she failed to show the Indemnity Provision was an agree­ment in the nature of alimony, ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Kevin R. Huennekens U.S. Bankruptcy Court

A Roanoke U.S. Bankruptcy Court sustains debtor’s objection to a $22,112 claim filed by his ex-wife, who has not shown that the parties’ divorce decree created a domestic support obligation in the nature of alimony, maintenance or support, as opposed ...

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

A debtor who filed her chapter 7 peti­tion indicating she had received the re­quired credit counseling, but whose cer­tificate of credit counseling filed on May 3, 2016, indicated she took the credit counseling course on April 28, 2016, one day ...

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

An Alexandria U.S. Bankruptcy Court says a chapter 7 debtor may not deduct the mortgage payments for purposes of the means test when debtor intended to surrender the property and make no more mortgage payments, and the court denies the ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Brian F. Kenney U.S. Bankruptcy Court

A realty company selling a debtor’s farm had to forfeit its commission when its auctioneer failed to disclose that he was bidding on the property for his own company while taking bids at the public auction. That omission violated a ...

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