Vogel v. Palmer (In Re Palmer)

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• finding that because the debtor was required to perform certain post-petition services to receive payment, renewal commissions were not part of the estate
• noting that the debtor’s employer had awarded an annual bonus for the previous fifty years
• finding bonus paid to debtor postpetition but agreed to by employer prepetition to be property of the estate
• finding bonus paid to debtor postpetition but agreed to by employer prepetition to be property of the estate
• finding discretionary bonus not to be property of the estate and stating “one of the most important factors in this case is that the Debtor was not entitled to receive the bonus until the [employer] made such a determination.”
• \The decisive factor in determining whether sums of money received post-petition constitute property of the estate is whether such income accrues from post-petition services.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).