In Re McCombs
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Texas
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION ON TRUSTEE’S FIRST APPLICATION FOR INTERIM COMPENSATION [Docket No. 252]
JEFF BOHM, Bankruptcy Judge.
I. IntROduction
The Court writes this Memorandum Opinion because it concerns an issue important to Chapter 7 trastees; namely, whether they should be denied compensation because efforts reasonably taken to generate cash for payment of unsecured claims eventually failed to produce any funds. Stated differently, should a trustee be totally denied compensation because an objecting creditor, with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, argues that the trustee’s failure to generate funds…
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