In re Thomas, Ch. 13 Case No. 24-10535-RMM, 2025 WL 1373615 (Bankr. M.D. Ga. May 12, 2025). Debtors’ Chapter 13 Plan proposed to reduce the secured creditor’s claim to the value of the manufactured home that served as collateral. The
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11th Circuit – Damages for False Imprisonment are Nondischargeable as Willful and Malicious Injury
In Watson v. Bradsher and Ali, 2025 WL 2205853 (11th Cir. August 4, 2025), the Debtor met Plaintiffs at a bar and invited one of them to go home with him. She sternly rejected his advances and moved with…
Homestead Exemption: Double Exemption Available Where Debtor Does Not Have Sole Ownership Of Residence
In In re Antman, 2024 WL 4786241, Ch. 13 Case No. 23-60317-ejc (Bankr. S.D. Ga. Nov. 14, 2024), the debtor’s father died in 1996 and in his will left his house to debtor and her three siblings in equal…
Don’t Pay Fact Witnesses (With a Surprising Bankruptcy Twist)
Bankruptcy Judge Calls Out Brown Rudnick’s 50% Increase In Hourly Fees
It is expensive to stay in Bankruptcy. Last month a Brown Rudnick lawyer tried to increase his hourly rate from $1,000 per hour to $1,500 per hour. Chief Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Delaware rejected the increase, “saying that no…
LaVie Care Centers (and 281 Related Entities) File Chapter 11 Petitions in the Northern District of Georgia
US Trustee Investigating Possible Scheme to Take Debtors’ Equity in Real Property in Multiple Cases; Lawyer Sanctioned
Terms of Confirmed Chapter 11 Plan Prohibit Malpractice Claim Against Debtor’s Counsel
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issues a reminder to debtors’ counsel that they can protect themselves with beneficial (boilerplate) terms in a Chapter 11 Plan. In In re SC SJ Holdings, LLC, 2024 WL 1328233 (3rd. Cir. March 28,…
Bankruptcy and Divorce (Vol. 73) – Agreements to Transfer Property
Section 523(a) Exceptions to Discharge Do Not Apply to Subchapter V Corporate Debtors
… at least in Judge Sigler’s Court in the Northern District of Georgia. Primary Investments Group, Inc. v. RA Custom Design Inc., 2024 WL 607716, Adv. Proc. No. 23-05193-sms (February 13, 2024). The holding is consistent with most courts…

