There are two questions that estate planners commonly ask when they have a client in financial distress: (1) If the Debtor has a history of tithing or making other charitable contributions, can the ...

In a recent decision in In re Taing, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts held that a mortgagee holds a claim that could be modified by a Chapter 11 plan even if the debtor was ...

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Bankruptcy Code Section 329(a) mandates the disclosure of an attorney’s transactions with a debtor. Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2016(b) implements the attorney disclosure requirements ...

Lowenstein Sandler announced Monday that it had launched a Wilmington, Delaware office, hiring former Polsinelli bankruptcy ...

leverage that springs from an organized association of debtors, often in debt to shared creditors, to negotiate the terms and conditions of debt contracts, including the abolition of unjust debts the ...

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