Career mentors: The Hon. Douglas O. Tice Jr., retired chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; and Lynn L. Tavenner, Esquire, the other founding member ...

Even after a bankruptcy court has confirmed a chapter 11 plan, changed circumstances prior to the plan's implementation and "substantial consummation" might make alterations to the plan necessary. If ...

You may not associate creditors' rights with the United States Constitution. After all, when people think of constitutional rights, they generally think of free speech, freedom of the press, trial by ...

Melanie I. Wiener writes: Brave creditors who venture into Surrogate's Court often face costly and practical obstacles (i.e., proving a debtor's genealogy) and ineffective enforcement mechanisms (i.e.

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A person who was not a creditor of a bankruptcy estate was entitled to actual notice of an injunction that would bar the non-creditor from suing the debtors’ insurance carriers, a federal court has ...

Secured Claims (2nd Lien): An asset can theoretically have dozens of lien claims against it. After assessing the priority order, each secured claim still receives top priority to receive liquidation ...

HOUSTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday granted a large group of Venezuela-linked creditors rights to participate in a January auction of shares in the parent of Houston-based refiner Citgo ...