Beatty v. Traub (In Re Beatty)

How courts have described this case

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• holding conversion is not effective on oral ruling; rather it is effective and operative on the date of entry on the docket
• ruling of court regarding conversion of case is effective when written and docketed
• construing 11 U.S.C. § 1307(b) as conferring on a chapter 13 debtor the unqualified right to dismiss a chapter 13 petition
• conversion was not sufficiently effective upon the oral ruling but had to await the date of entry into the docket
• “[A] court must dismiss the case upon the debtor’s request for dismissal under section 1307(b) if that request is made prior to the effective time of an order converting the case to Chapter 7.”
• “The better reasoned view is that a court must dismiss the case upon the debtor’s request for dismissal under section 1307(b) if that request is made prior to the ... [formal] order converting the case to Chapter 7.”

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