DeHart v. John (In re John)

OPINION 1

JOHN J. THOMAS, Bankruptcy Judge.

Overshadowing what otherwise is a successful completion of a Chapter 13 Plan leading to a Final Report filed by the Chapter 13 Trustee is an open Trustee’s Motion to Dismiss filed several years ago based on Debtors’ failure to comply with *645the credit counseling requirements of 11 U.S.C. § 109(h). The Debtors and Chapter 13 Trustee have framed the issue as to how to compute the relevant time period provided in 11 U.S.C. § 109(h)(1).

Briefly, the facts are as follows. The Debtors filed their voluntary Chapter 13 Petition on September 8, 2008. On the…