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How Can I Claim a Business Bad Debt Deduction? - Creditor's Rights Toolkit

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The Internal Revenue Code permits a business bad debt deduction when a customer fails to pay for the services rendered or the products supplied by your business. However, the ability to claim an ordinary deduction with...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Ten Years Gone – Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Effort to Extend Lookback Period for Avoidance of Pre-Bankruptcy Transfers

A recent decision by Delaware Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey will limit the ability of bankruptcy trustees to expand the lookback period for avoiding pre-bankruptcy transfers beyond the four years provided under most state law...more

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Another Court Adopts Majority View in Approving Bankruptcy Trustee's Use of Tax Code Look-Back Period in Avoidance Actions

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The ability of a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") to avoid fraudulent transfers is an important tool promoting the bankruptcy policies of equality of distribution among creditors and maximizing...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Bankruptcy Ruling Highlights Longer Lookback Trend

Projections suggest over 1 million bankruptcy petitions will be filed in 2021. In preparing for those filings, counsel routinely evaluate the prospective creditor pool to determine, inter alia, the types of creditors, claim...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

The Trustee Is Suing Me For A Transfer I Received How Many Years Ago?

Any creditor that has experienced more than a few customers or borrowers filing for bankruptcy is aware that there is a risk of being sued by a trustee to avoid transfers that the creditor received prior to the bankruptcy...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Virus To Economic Shutdown To Bankruptcy? Not Necessarily, But Be Prepared

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Bankruptcy Resurgent? The economic shutdown, and the ensuing recession, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic have jeopardized the survival of many businesses and, in some cases, of entire industries. Notwithstanding the...more

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Decade Old Transactions Potentially Subject to Bankruptcy Clawback in Massachusetts

Transfers and transactions up to ten years old may be scrutinized, unwound and recovered by a trustee, the bankruptcy court sitting in Massachusetts recently held in the NECCO (think chalky wafer candy) bankruptcy case. The...more

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Unsecured Creditors May Expect Better Recoveries in Bankruptcy

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On August 31, 2016, United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert A. Mark ruled that a bankruptcy trustee can pursue avoidance of property transfers that occurred nearly ten years before the debtor’s bankruptcy filing. The...more

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Strong Arm Powers: Does Sovereign Immunity Trump a Claim Based on State Law?

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Kohut v. Wayne County Treasurer (In re Lewiston), 528 B.R. 387 (Bankr. E.D. Mich. 2015) – The debtor made property tax payments on behalf of several real estate projects.  The chapter 7 trustee sought to recover those...more

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