Schofield v. United States Trustee (In Re Jones)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MATSCH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 158(a) of a final judgment of a bankruptcy judge ordering the appellant, R. Scott Schofield, to disgorge $756.28 from a payment received by him from the debtor before the fifing of her Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding as prepayment for costs and attorney’s fees for services performed and to be performed through the first meeting of creditors. The order required payment to the trustee for the benefit of the estate, pursuant to oral findings and conclusions at a hearing held on October 8, 1996, determining that…