Category: Bankruptcy & Student Loan Relief

Because Code § 506(a) states that “[a]n allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien on property in which the estate has an interest

Yes, according to a recent decision from the ND of Illinios, the Court reld on the 10th Ciruict holding in In re Dixon, 218 B.R.

Chapter 13 debtor may strip unsecured lien under Code § 1322(b)(2), but not § 506(d). Further, stripping an unsecured lien in Chapter 13 requires that

In a recent Wisconsin cae, the Bankrupcy Court said no. The creditors failed to show that the debtor’s potential social-host liability for the death of

In Seaport v Burden, a 6th Circuit case from 2012, the Court held that Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code permits individuals with regular income

In a recent case in the Western District of Michigan, a Bankruptcy judge ruled that the US Government had the right to set off a

The test for judicial estoppel in Sixth Circuit was set forth in Stephenson v. Malloy, 700 F.3d 265 (6th Cir., Oct. 30, 2012). The Stephenson court