Hoopai v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (In Re Hoopai)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
The court approved the chapter 13 debt- or’s $300,000 sale of property on which she owed $158,935, but closing was delayed for a year by an appeal designed to revive the creditor’s incomplete $159,000 prepetition foreclosure sale and by the attorneys’ fees dispute that is the subject of this appeal. The court ruled, In re Hoopai, 348 B.R. 528 (Bankr.D.Haw.2006), that the mortgagee was “prevailing party” under Hawaii law and awarded all the mortgagee’s requested fees and costs ($83,542.87), in addition to the $176,927.72 that had been paid to extinguish the debt…
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