In Re Joest

MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

DIANE DAVIS, Bankruptcy Judge.

Before the Court is the Chapter 13 Trustee’s (“Trustee”) objection to confirmation of Karen Joest’s (“Debtor”) proposed Chapter 13 plan pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1325(b)(1)(B). 1 The narrow issue presented to this Court is whether in above median income cases a debtor’s reasonably necessary expenses are defined solely by § 707(b)(2), as incorporated in § 1325(b)(3), or does this Court retain the discretion to separately inquire as to the reasonable necessity of a specific expense under § 1325(b)(2). Debtor is an above median income…