Associates Financial Services Corp. v. Cowen (In Re Cowen)

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• dismissing the second case because, inter alia, it was filed before entry of the discharge in the first case
• \[A] discharged debt which was not properly reaffirmed is not cognizable as `debt' in a subsequent proceeding without either a novation of the prior obligation or the creation of an entirely new debt.\
• Debtors may not maintain simultaneous proceeding under Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
• “the filing of two simultaneous petitions is contrary to the obvious contemplated function of the Bankruptcy Code to resolve debtors’ financial affairs by administration of a debtor’s property as a single estate under a single Chapter within the Code”
• “[a] debtor possesses only one estate for purposes of trusteeship”
• “A debtor possesses only one estate for purposes of trusteeship.”

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