Legal Opinion
Coffin v. eCast Settlement Corp. (In Re Coffin)
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the First Circuit
Decided September 15, 2010No. BAP No. EP 08-090. Bankruptcy No. 07-20955-JBHPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAMOUTTE, Bankruptcy Judge.
Scott Coffin (the “Debtor”) appeals from an order, dated November 18, 2008, issued by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine (the “Order”) 2 denying confirmation of his chapter 13 plan because it included a deduction for an ownership expense on a vehicle which was neither leased nor encumbered. The bankruptcy court concluded that, under § 707(b)(2)(A)(ii)(I), 3 the vehicle ownership expense deduction is not “applicable” to above-median debtors who have no loan or lease payments, and that the Debtor had therefore failed to apply all of his…
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