Legal Opinion
Max v. Northington (In Re Northington)
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 11, 2017No. 16-17467, 16-17468PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWSOM, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to assess the interplay between the United States Bankruptcy Code and a Georgia statute that defines state-law property rights. For its part, the Code' describes a bankruptcy ¿state as including “all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case,” 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1), and goes on to provide, as relevant here, that a Chapter 13 plan can “modify the rights of holders of secured claims” on property in the estate, id. § 1322(b)(2), Meanwhile, Georgia’s “pawn” law states that any “pledged”—ie., pawned—item…
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