In the Matter of Vance Cole Chesnut, Debtor. Mark T. Brown, Templeton Mortgage Corp. v. Vance Cole Chesnut

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• explaining that a willful violation of the automatic stay does not require a specific intent to violate the automatic stay but rather requires the defendant’s actions which violated the stay to be intentional
• “The Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay is designed to ensure the orderly distribution of assets by temporarily protecting the property of the debtor’s estate from the reach of creditors”
• “There are three elements to a claim [for a violation of a bankruptcy stay]: (1) the defendant must have known of the existence of the stay; (2) the defendant’s acts must have been intentional; and (3) these acts must have violated the stay.”

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