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· 5/13/1997

In Re Lesniak

Citations

  • 208 B.R. 902
  • 38 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 59
  • 1997 Bankr. LEXIS 710
  • 30 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 1079
  • 1997 WL 282482

How courts have described this case

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  • conversion denied because schedules were “fraught with discrepancies” and because of lack of motivation to pay debts
  • conversion denied because schedules were “fraught with discrepancies” and because of lack of motivation to pay debts
  • “[N]either the text, the legislative history, nor the case law regarding Section 706(a) grants a debtor a truly absolute right to convert.”
  • “[T]he Court finds that it would be an abuse of process to permit the Debtors to convert to Chapter 13 at this stage of their Chapter 7 case.”
  • conversion denied due to omissions of assets, false testimony, and prepetition conduct
  • request for conversion denied where evidence supports debtor’s lack of good faith

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Judges: Richard N. Degunther

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