Gray v. Tacason (In re Tacason), 2014 BNH 017 (determining debt nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6) after affording factual findings in state court order preclusive effect; in state court contempt proceeding, the state court had found facts sufficient for bankruptcy court to find on summary judgment that debtor had caused willful and malicious injury to the plaintiff).
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In re Tacason, 2014 BNH 016 (reducing fee award to debtor's counsel on account of unnecessary chapter 13 filing for which debtor was ineligible under 11 U.S.C. § 109(e); denying debtor's request for court to approve after-the-fact employment of debtor's counsel in chapter 11 under 11 U.S.C. § 327 and denying all compensation to debtor's counsel for legal services performed during the period he was not employed by the estate; sanctioning debtor's counsel for failing to properly disclose fee arrangement with debtor under 11 U.S.C. § 329 and taking estate funds without court approval under 11 U.S.C. § 330).
Gordon v. Vilela (In re Vilela), 2014 BNH 015 (avoiding the debtor’s transfer of her half of the proceeds, from the sale of her home, to her former father-in-law as a constructively fraudulent transfer under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(B) and permitting recovery from the defendant as the initial transferee in accordance with 11 U.S.C. § 550(a)(1)).
In re Taal, 520 B.R. 370 (Bankr. D.N.H. 2014) (denying creditor's motion to dismiss pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1307(c) and for in rem relief under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(4); despite three prior filings by non-debtor spouse, two of which affected the creditor's collateral, the evidence in the record did not warrant dismissal or provide a basis for in rem relief from the automatic stay of 11 U.S.C. § 362(a) in this debtor's first bankruptcy case of record).
In re Iodice, 2014 BNH 013 (denying creditor's objection to the debtor's homestead exemption pursuant to New Hampshire RSA 480:1: the debtor owned two parcels of contiguous real property, one of which was undisputed homestead property; the debtor was able to exempt the disputed parcel, despite not having actively used that parcel during his bankruptcy case, because he had previously used it in connection with the undisputed homestead property, and because the creditor did not present sufficient evidence that the debtor intended to permanently abandon it).
Ruma v. Kehaias (In re Kehaias), 2014 BNH 012 (granting creditor's motion for summary judgment and so determining that damages awarded by a New Hampshire state court per RSA 540-A, a landlord-tenant statute, were nondischargeable as a willful and malicious injury, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6); both issue preclusion---stemming from the state court judgment---and the facts independently established by the summary judgment record required the court to enter summary judgment against the debtor).
Kev-Ray Investments LLC v. Lemay (In re Lemay), 2014 BNH 011 (granting summary judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56 on the basis that creditor failed to demonstrate evidence of willfulness and malice under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6); and denying summary judgment on (i) § 523(a)(2)(A) claim---assignment of debt did not prevent assignee creditor from proving reliance on alleged misrepresentations the debtor made to the assignor---and (ii) on claim under NH RSA § 358-A, as while lease transaction between debtor and creditor was a covered transaction made in the ordinary course of business, material questions of fact existed as to remaining allegations).
In re Fournier, 2014 BNH 010 (denying the debtors’ motion seeking to void the bank’s second mortgage lien on the debtors’ principal residence, as the court found that the value of the debtors’ residence exceeded the first mortgagee’s claim; accordingly, value existed so that the bank’s second mortgage claim was partially secured under 11 U.S.C. § 506(a) and, therefore, the debtors could not modify the rights of the bank under the provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(2)).
In re Stevens, 2014 BNH 009 (denying confirmation of the Debtor's chapter 13 plan, upon a creditor's objection, for failing to meet the best interest of creditors test under 11 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(4); the Debtor, who bore the burden of proof, failed to present sufficient evidence to support his valuation of his primary asset, a pizza restaurant organized as an LLC).
Blanchard v. New Hampshire Higher Educ. Assist. Found. (In re Blanchard), 2014 BNH 008 (finding the Debtor established that not discharging his student loans under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8) would impose an undue hardship under the totality of the circumstances test; the Court expressly rejected the Brunner test).