Legal Opinion
In re Rivera
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided September 10, 2012No. 11-07492 EAGPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD A. GODOY, Bankruptcy Judge.
Pending before the court is the chapter 13 trustee’s objection to confirmation of a plan filed by joint debtors Waldo Martinez Rivera and Glenda Colon Lopez. (Docket No. 33.) The trustee’s objection arises from the fact that debtors’ plan proposes to separately classify and give preferential treatment to the unsecured portion of a claim for which Colon Lopez’s mother is a codebtor. (Docket Nos. 2; 33.) The trustee argues that such treatment unfairly discriminates against the other unsecured creditors, which are to receive a significantly…
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