Legal Opinion
In Re Woodward
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided February 23, 2001No. 13-03375PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
LEE M. JACKWIG, Bankruptcy Judge.
Barbara G. Stuart, the United States Trustee for Region 12 (“U.S. Trustee”), filed an 11 U.S.C. section 707(b) motion to dismiss this Chapter 7 case. She contends permitting Debtors Ronald Lee and Diane Mildred Woodward (“Debtors”) to proceed with this liquidation case would be a substantial abuse of the provisions governing Chapter 7 because the Debtors have the ability to pay a significant percentage of their consumer debt. The Debtors disagree. Having conducted an evidentiary hearing on the controversy and having reviewed the record…
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