Small businesses that are struggling to reorganize their debts may find it easier to get a fresh start thanks to changes to federal bankruptcy laws taking effect next year. The Small Business Reorganization Act seeks to offer small businesses ...

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This is the second in a series of articles looking at how the aging of America’s population is affecting the practice of law. While it may be said that the greatest wealth is to live content with little, this idea may be ...

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George Cauthen has been named as the 2018 recipient of the Bankruptcy Inn Alliance Distinguished Service Award. Cauthen becomes one of seven other bankruptcy judges and lawyers to receive the honor, which is presented by the American Inns of Court.. ...

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The Eastern District of Virginia’s Local Bankruptcy Rule 3070-1(C), which allows for dismissal without hearing, conflicts with the requirements of 11 U.S.C. § 1307. Background In January 2017, the Eastern District’s bankruptcy trustee certified under Local Bankruptcy Rule 3070-1(C) that ...

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Debtors who moved from Louisiana to West Virginia could apply Louisiana bankruptcy exemptions to property located in West Virginia, because federal law allowed the debtors to choose a state exemption scheme, and Louisiana law is not limited to in-state property. ...

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  Lawyers representing the families of nursing home patients in upstate South Carolina say that a company’s recent bankruptcy filing in Texas has put pending medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation on hold. The automatic stay has halted all pending ...

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  The U.S. Bankruptcy Court of South Carolina may have brought a halt, at least temporarily, to a credit union’s practice of refusing to let debtors keep a deceased relative’s house by taking over the mortgage payments without refinancing the ...

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In re Kindle (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-005-17, 15 pp.) (David Duncan, C.J.) 17-01245; B.S.C. Holding: Even though the debtors intend to pay their student loans outside their chapter 13 plan, thus treating their student loan debt differently from all other ...

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Rainsford v. Apex Bank (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-108-17, 9 pp.) (Mary Geiger Lewis, J.) 8:16-cv-03521; D.S.C. Holding: Where an attorney told plaintiff that he represented the defendant-bank and could arrange a settlement of plaintiff’s debt to the bank through various ...

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A bankruptcy filing by Japanese air bag maker Takata will leave little money for dozens of people who sued the company over deaths and injuries caused by its exploding air bag inflators, according to outside legal experts and lawyers suing ...

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