Westpfahl v. Clark (In re Westpfahl)

*332OPINION

WILLIAM V. ALTENBERGER, Chief Judge.

The issue before the Court represents the second stage of hearings to determine if the Chapter 12 Debtors may make direct payments to creditors, thereby bypassing the Chapter 12 Trustee and avoiding his statutory fee. At the first stage, this Court denied numerous challenges to the legal status of the Chapter 12 Trustee, and the manner in which his fees are calculated, but held that in general a Chapter 12 debtor was not precluded from making direct payments to creditors without recompense to the Chapter 12 Trustee and that a further hearing was…