Recently, the United States Supreme Court in Taggart v. Lorenzen set the legal standard that should be followed by bankruptcy courts when determining whether to hold a creditor in civil contempt for attempting to collect a debt in violation of a bankruptcy discharge order. The unanimous decision of the Supreme Court reconciled a split which had developed in lower courts as to the nature of the proper standard for evaluating whether to hold a creditor in contempt for violating a discharge order.
Originally Published in the Nassau Lawyer - December 2019.
Please see full publication below for more information.