Wootton v. Ravkind (In Re Dixon)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an amount paid to an attorney for criminal defense services was subject to Section 329
• promise by attorney to provide legal representation in a prospective criminal proceeding does not constitute reasonably equivalent value for fee
• any alleged deprivation of a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right must be remedied in the district court, not the bankruptcy court
• courts in the Fifth Circuit and elsewhere have generally refused to authorize the use of estate funds for payment of criminal counsel because the expense did not benefit the estate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).