In re Husemann, 2001 BNH 039 (overruling the Chapter 13 trustee’s objection to confirmation based on 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(1) because there was no unfair discrimination by the debtor in proposing to pay a co-signed consumer obligation in full under his plan; denying confirmation of the debtor’s plan for failure to use all of his disposable income within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 1325(b)(2) as the debtor’s 401(k) contribution was not a reasonably necessary living expense under the particular facts of the case while his monthly payments for a 401(k) loan, life insurance, and support of his estranged wife were).
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Bezanson v. Thomas (In re R & R Assocs. of Hampton), 2001 BNH 038 (treating cross motions for summary judgment as motions for partial summary judgment pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(d) and denying the motions on the grounds that disposition of the matters raised would not significantly narrow issues for trial).
Granite Bank v. Cohen (In re Cohen), 267 B.R. 39 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2001) (holding that under state law the debtor’s real property, on which the debtor’s principal residence was located and consisting of 59.7 acres of land divided by a road, was one parcel of land, and, as a result, finding that (1) the mortgagee’s claim could not be modified pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1123(b)(5); and (2) the mortgagee’s motion for relief should be granted pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(2) as the debtor’s real property was not necessary to an effective reorganization under Chapter 11).
Stephenson v. Schreiber (In re Emerson), 2001 BNH 036 (granting summary judgment in favor of the Chapter 7 trustee without deciding if the good faith transferee defense under RSA 545-A:8(IV) may be raised by an insider against a Chapter 7 trustee’s fraudulent transfer claim under RSA 545-A:5(II) because it is not a defense to a preferential transfer claim under 11 U.S.C. § 547(b), pursuant to which the Chapter 7 trustee had already received a judgment avoiding the transfer of the debtors’ airplane).
In re Croteau, 2001 BNH 035 (holding that post-petition appreciation in the value of property accrues for the benefit of the trustee and the bankruptcy estate in accordance with 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(6) and not for benefit of the debtor).
United Companies Lending Corp. v. Skwozinski (In re Skwozinski), 2001 BNH 034 (holding that the Debtor and Co-Debtors had properly rescinded on a residential mortgage under the Truth and Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1635, and had properly rescinded on a commercial property under the doctrine of collateral estoppel).
In re Schultz, 2001 BNH 033 (holding that the mortgagee’s secured claim is protected by 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(2) and cannot be modified as proposed in the debtors’ Chapter 13 plan where the debtors were living on the mortgaged real estate in a mobile home but were not living in the manufactured home, whose purchase the mortgagee financed, at the time the debtors filed their bankruptcy petition).
In re Schalebaum, 263 B.R. 684 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2001) (holding that state court’s order directing that sales proceeds be deposited with court in order to secure possible judgment in favor of the Town of Wolfeboro in a prepetition action against the Debtor created a judicial lien in favor of the town as defined by 11 U.S.C. § 101(36); rejecting Trustee’s argument that the state court action was merely a bill of interpleader).
Smith v. Looney (In re DeCarolis), 2001 BNH 031 (finding that, under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7019, non-debtor beneficiaries of real estate trust are proper party-defendants in Trustee’s action to determine estate’s interest in trust property).
McClain v. American Student Assistance (In re McClain), 264 B.R. 230 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2001) (granting creditors’ motion for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c) on claims challenging constitutionality of 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8)).