Pay.gov Scheduled Maintenance for Saturday, 05/10/2014, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)

By | May 9, 2014 | Court Clerk Information | No comments

ATTENTION ECF USERS:

Pay.gov, the CM/ECF on-line credit card processing module is scheduled for site maintenance on Saturday, 05/10/2014 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Pacific Time).  During this maintenance period ECF users may experience interruptions of service.

Access to CM/ECF is NOT affected by this outage.

Should you have any questions, please call the ECF Help Desk at 213-894-2365 during normal business hours Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, excluding Federal  holidays.

Regards,

ECF Help Desk

July 19, 2014 – In re Bellingham: From the Insiders

By | May 5, 2014 | Appeals, Bankruptcy Data, Case Briefs, Cases, Community, Current Events, Supreme Court | No comments

Cdcbaa Program July 19, 2014

First Annual James T. King Bankruptcy Symposium

In re Bellingham: From the Insiders

Judge Richard Paez
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
(Wrote the 9th Circuit Opinion appealed to the Supreme Court)

Judge Meredith Jury
Bankruptcy Court – Riverside Division

Prof. John Pottow, University of Michigan
(Argued for the Appellees at the Supreme Court)

Moderated by M. Jonathan Hayes

Saturday May 31, 2014 – CDCBAA – CHAPTER 13: MEET THE TRUSTEE’S ATTORNEYS

By | May 5, 2014 | Chapter 13, Current Events, Programs, U.S. Trustee | No comments

CDCBAA
Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Association

CHAPTER 13: MEET THE TRUSTEE’S ATTORNEYS

Saturday May 31, 2014

Presented by:
Central District Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Association

SPEAKERS:
Aki Koyama
Staff Attorney to Kathy Dockery

Elizabeth Schneider
Staff Attorney to Rod Danielson

Tracy Green
Staff Attorney to Amrane Cohen

Melissa Besecker
Staff Attorney to Liz Rojas

Omid Moezzi
Staff Attorney to Nancy Curry

Masako Okuda
Staff Attorney to Nancy Curry

Moderated by Nancy Clark

Read more…

Comments from Aki Koyama re Kathy Dockery New Website

By | May 2, 2014 | Chapter 13 | No comments

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the new website seminar. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here are some highlights of the new website features:

1. The ability to search for the Trustee’s Recommendation for your case or cases by case number, debtor name and firm name;
2. Cell phone, iPad friendly formats for ease of use;
3. Internet payments via E-Pay. Your client will receive a confirmation via email that they have made a payment via E-Pay and they can forward this email to you for verification of the plan payment. The verification takes up to an hour to get via email but will usually be sent in less time;
4. DRU “Debtor Response Upload” – this is an application that will allow your client or you to upload federal income tax returns to the Trustee after your client’s plan has been confirmed. The federal income tax return will be automatically transferred into our database upon successful upload.

Aki Koyama

Thursday, May 1, 2014 – LATrustee.com Live Demo/ Learn the New Features

By | April 30, 2014 | Bankruptcy Data, Chapter 13, Community, Programs, U.S. Trustee | No comments

LATrustee.com

Live Demo/ Learn the New Features

Thursday, May 1, 2014

2 Sessions
Due to Limited Space Choose 2:00 pm or 3:00pm

Presented by
Kathy A. Dockery, Chapter 13 Trustee

Location for Presentation
915 Wilshire Boulevard
10th Floor, Room 3
Downtown Los Angeles

RSVP at: gmangum@latrustee.com

*When you RSVP, indicate whether you will attend at 2:00 pm or 3:00 pm

Specialist Class with Wes Avery and Dennis McGoldrick

By | April 30, 2014 | Specialist Information | No comments

From Wes Avery:

Counsel:

Our next monthly class (with MCLE credit) to prepare for the October, 2015 Exam will be held from noon to 1:30 pm on Friday, May 2, 2014 in the basement of 6055 E. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90012.  Free parking.  We will be discussing Chapter 5 of the Blum Book.  The texts for the course are as follows (available on Amazon.com):

(1) Blum, Brian A. – Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Examples and Explanations 6th Edition (ISBN 1454833912); [Class Textbook]
(2) EZ Rules for the Bankruptcy Code (ISBN 978-0-7355-7197-6) [Bankruptcy Code translated into Layperson English];
(3) Martin, Nathalie – The Glannon Guide to Bankruptcy (ISBN 978-0-7355-0728-9); [Problem Sets]
(4) AWHFY, L.P. – Annotated Mini Code Mini Rules Western Edition (ISSN 1553-264X) [9th Circuit Caselaw]; and
(5) Markell, Bruce A. – Questions & Answers: Bankruptcy (ISBN 978-0-8205-5673-4) [Problem Sets]
Dennis and I will see you there.

Wesley H. Avery
Wesley H. Avery, Esq.

Third Annual Leslie Cohen Law 5k Benefiting Public Counsel’s Debtor Assistance Project

By | April 28, 2014 | Pro Bono | No comments

Team Simon Resnik Hayes at the Third Annual Leslie Cohen Law 5k benefiting Public Counsel’s Debtor Assistance Project on Saturday, April 26, 2014.

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Some Historical Data in the Central District of California

By | April 28, 2014 | Bankruptcy Data | No comments

So far this year through March 2014 there have been 12,269 chapter 7; 150 chapter 11; and, 2,886 chapter 13 in the Central District.

Total filings by month for the past six+ years.

Central District of California
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Jan 3,694 6,004 9,013 10,868 8,835 6,552 -26% 4,917 -25%
Feb 3,787 6,971 9,659 10,631 9,307 6,614 -29% 4,779 -28%
March 4,381 8,529 12,840 13,543 10,108 7,684 -24% 5,611 -27%
April 5,023 8,512 12,114 12,087 9,034 7,515 -17%
May 5,177 8,967 11,906 11,669 9,620 7,170 -25%
June 5,351 9,595 12,190 11,718 8,165 6,202 -24%
July 5,983 9,894 12,737 10,418 8,201 6,404 -22%
Aug 6,195 9,748 12,720 11,496 8,779 6,235 -29%
Sept 6,290 9,214 12,412 10,006 7,222 5,407 -25%
Oct 6,364 10,322 11,753 9,887 8,438 6,169 -27%
Nov 6,029 9,462 10,900 9,099 7,192 4,829 -33%
Dec 6,615 9,864 10,925 9,089 6,187 4,516 -27%
64,889 107,082 139,169 130,511 101,088 75,297 -26%

 Some annual numbers from Prof. Bob Lawless for the whole country can be found here.

9th Circuit BAP Denies Right of Chapter 13 Debtors to Deduct $200 “Older Vehicle Operating Expense”

By | April 27, 2014 | Cases, Chapter 13 | No comments

Drummond v. Luedtke (In re Luedtke), — B.R. — (9th Cir. BAP April, 2014)

Issue: May an above median chapter 13 debtor deduct $200 per month for “older vehicle operating expense” when computing their plan payment?

Holding: No.

“We believe that the plain meaning of the language in § 707(b)(2)(A)(ii)(I) controls the resolution of this issue.  The statutory text dictates that debtors’ monthly expenses under the means test ‘shall be the debtor’s applicable monthly expense amounts specified under the National Standards and Local Standards . . . issued by the Internal Revenue Service.’”

Public Report: Debtor Audits by the United States Trustee Program Fiscal Year 2013

By | April 26, 2014 | Bankruptcy Data, Cases, U.S. Trustee | No comments

On April 4, 2014, the US Trustee issued its annual report on Debtor Audits.  You can access the report here.  The UST reports that during the fiscal year, 390 audits were conducted, down from 1,351 the year before.  25% of the audits found that there was a least one material misrepresentation in the debtor’s schedules, the same percentage as the year before.  In the Central District of California there were a grand total of 34 audits and 32% of those had at least one material misrepresentation.   Of the 390 audits, only 187 were chosen at random; the remaining were “exception audits,” meaning they are chosen “based on income or expenditures greater than a statistical norm for the district where the case was filed.”

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