Brown v. Luker (In Re Zepecki)

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• payment for attorney to conduct a sham 1031 exchange in order to remove assets from what would become the bankruptcy estate was “in contemplation of” bankruptcy
• payment for attorney to conduct a sham 1031 exchange in order to remove assets from what would become the bankruptcy estate was “in contemplation of” bankruptcy
• attorney who represented debtor in pre-petition real estate sale was subject to § 329 and disgorgement because services were influenced by the imminence of the debtor’s filing
• “A disgorgement is allowed only to the extent that the fees are excessive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).