How do the means test health care numbers relate to the same expenses on I and J? Three of us sat around the table struggling with the means test in a converted case, trustee objections to confirmation of a Chapter 13, and my conviction that a single mother, even getting help from family, should not […]

Following the announcement of a class I was to teach on bankruptcy fundamentals, a reader called and told me he had embarked on reading the entire Code and Rules.  “Should I wait to take the course til I’ve completed that? ”  he asked. I was so inclined to shout “Hallelujah, a rookie reading the Code!” that […]

By the end of the afternoon, the judge was pretty tired of turning down lien strip motions for the same old, and avoidable, reason:   lawyers hadn’t served the bank involved properly. There’s a rule for this:  FRBP 7004(h) says a federally insured depository institution (read:  bank) is served by certified mail addressed to an officer […]

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning. – Robert Collier We have all evolved from a simple beginning – our law degrees.  Those simple pieces of parchment enable us to sit for the bar, gain admission […]

The usual road to a good education is to seek out the best teacher or the school with the deepest resources;  you want people who know the field thoroughly to pass that knowledge on to you.  So, why is it that the field of bankruptcy law these days is overrun with lawyers trying to pick […]