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Barron and Newburger Selected as Counsel to Unsecured Creditors Committee of Expansion Industries, LLC.

BN Lawyers

Barron and Newburger is pleased to announce that the firm has been selected as counsel to the official committee of unsecured creditors of Expansion Industries, LLC. appeared first on Barron & Newburger, P.C.

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Another Bankruptcy Court Weighs in on Postpetition Interest

PBWT

Because it was solvent at confirmation, the debtor proposed to pay secured creditors in full, with interest at the contract rate, and general unsecured creditors in full, with postpetition interest at the “legal rate,” or a rate determined by the Court that leaves the creditors unimpaired. [1] 94 (BAP 9th Cir.

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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy and Student Loans

Sawin & Shea

Reduces payment amounts: Amounts paid to your student loans and other unsecured creditors will often be significantly lower through a Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The upside is that this delay can give you time to work on your other debts while you increase your income.

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Florida Bankruptcy Court Sanctions Debt Buyer for Seeking to Collect Debt that Consumer Failed to Schedule in Bankruptcy Case

Troutman Sanders

She listed 45 unsecured creditors in her schedules of assets and liabilities, including the $7,400 credit card debt at issue. However, testimony later showed that the entity listed as holding the debt, Direct Merchants Bank, was not the actual creditor but rather a registered trademark owned by Metris Companies.

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Idaho Bankruptcy Court Holds that Later-Recovered Assets Revert to Borrower Absent Plan Provision to the Contrary

Troutman Sanders

In In re McCrorey , the debtors confirmed a chapter 13 plan, which required them to make payments for 60 months and provided no payments to unsecured creditors. The court then turned to the confirmed plan, stating that such plan is “a contract between the debtor and the debtor’s creditors.”

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Failed Private School was owed £51k in Unpaid School Fees

UK debt collections

Preferential creditors, who are owed £99,511.20, such as some of the 90 staff, could receive a first and final dividend of 76p for every pound owed. But money for unsecured creditors, who are owed £2.28 The school was owed £51,536 by several debtors for unpaid private school fees and there was a total of £294,714.94 in the bank.

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The Final Say: Conversion from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 is Not a Given

PBWT

Unsecured Creditors Committee et al. , Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Mexico confirmed a plan that had been proposed by the unsecured creditors' committee. It is well-settled that if you are a debtor in chapter 11, you do not have the unfettered right to convert the case to a chapter 7 liquidation.