In Re Ernest R. Lilley, Jr., Debtor. Ernest R. Lilley, Jr.

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• instructing courts to consider, inter alia, “the debtor’s treatment of creditors both before and after the petition was filed”
• “Factors relevant to the totality of the circumstances inquiry may include ... ‘how the debtor’s actions affected creditors.’ ”
• “It is . . . beyond dispute that a court may consider matters other than those enumerated in [§] 1307(c) as grounds for dismissal [or conversion] of a Chapter 13 petition.”
• “good faith is a term incapable of precise definition” which requires a “fact intensive determination better left to the discretion of the bankruptcy court” on a “case-by-case basis in light of the totality of the circumstances.”

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