Legal Opinion
Mendoza v. Montoya (In re Mendoza)
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 5, 2019No. BAP No. NM-18-019; Bankr. No. 16-10951; BAP No. NM-18-030; Bankr. No. 13-13057PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROMERO, Bankruptcy Judge.
We address the appeals of Pedro Mendoza and Sandy Armijo and Steven and Darla Sue Dollman together as both appeals raise an identical legal issue: whether the New Mexico bankruptcy courts properly sustained a Chapter 7 trustee's objections to the amendment of the debtors' bankruptcy schedules.
In both cases, the bankruptcy courts concluded the general right to amend schedules provided by Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 1009(a) sets the date the case is closed as the specified period in which the debtors must file amendments to their schedules.1 As the debtors in…
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