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In re Wrobel

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. New York

Decided July 23, 2015No. Case No. 12-13001 KPublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

APPEALABLE DECISION AND ORDER

Michael J. Kaplan, United States Bankruptcy Judge ■

This Chapter 13 case is a two-party dispute — the Debtor cannot pay her former matrimonial lawyer’s $88,000 fee because she bought a $75,000 condominium that is her homestead instead of paying the lawyer, and the money that paid for the home derived at least in part from the lawyer’s work on her behalf.

In an earlier interlocutory ruling1 regarding 11 U.S.C. § 522(o)2 the Court pointed out that the Legislative History to the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act approved the pre-petition conversion of non-exempt property into…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. C. Russell Kelleran, Jr., Eighteen Mile Corporation v. Slavko Andrijevic, A/K/A Al AndrieCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1987
  2. In Re Albert H. Caldwell, Debtor. James E. Hardin, James C. Hardin, and Ralph Majors, Cross-Appellants v. Albert H. Caldwell, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1990
  3. In Re BodineUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. New York · 1990
  4. In Re LaSotaUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. New York · 2006
  5. In Re MattsonUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota · 1999

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re PowersUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. New York · 2016
  2. In re BradleyUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Maine · 2017
  3. Cuwanda L Williams-BellUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. New York · 2025
  4. Joseph G SorbelloUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. New York · 2023

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