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· 2/14/2014

Lerin Brown v. Linda B. Gore

Citations

  • 742 F.3d 1309
  • 2014 WL 563601
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 2785

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  • finding a debtor's Chapter 13 filing to be insincere where the debtor was the paradigmatic candidate for Chapter 7, but filed under Chapter 13 exclusively to pay his attorney's fees in installments
  • Kitchens test is “basically. . . a ‘totality of the circumstances’ approach for determining good faith or lack thereof.”
  • “These same Kitchens factors for subsection (a)(3) are equally relevant to determining whether a petition was filed in good faith under subsection (a)(7).”
  • “A bankruptcy court’s determination whether a chapter 13 plan has been proposed in good faith is a finding of fact reviewable under the clearly erroneous standard.”
  • “A bankruptcy court’s determination whether a chapter 13 plan has been proposed in good faith is a finding of fact reviewable under the clearly erroneous standard.”
  • quotation marks 5 Case: 20-10044 Date Filed: 09/29/2020 Page: 6 of 14 omitted

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Judges: Carnes, Hull, Cox

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