In Re Lombardo

How courts have described this case

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• finding that debtor’s pre-petition deceit in promising her attorney a share of a settlement in payment of the attorney’s fees then filing for bankruptcy before the attorney could perfect a lien on the funds constitutes egregious conduct
• finding bad faith where debtor continually misled creditor into supplying credit for four years and eventually sought to exempt the benefit it received
• finding bad faith because debtor intentionally deceived her matrimonial attorney into providing legal services for several years, only to file for bankruptcy with the sole purpose of frustrating her attorney’s attempts to collect outstanding legal fees
• listing 14 factors that courts consider in determining whether “there is a lack of good faith in a debtor’s bankruptcy filing,” including whether “[t]he debtor filed in response to a judgment, pending litigation[,] or collection action”
• listing 14 factors that courts consider in determining whether “there is a lack of good faith in a debtor’s bankruptcy filing,” including whether “[t]he debtor filed in response to a judgment, pending litigation[,] or collection action”
• granting motion to dismiss based on bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).