In re Atchison

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Dwight H, Williams, Jr., United States Bankruptcy Judge

The debtor’s proposed chapter 13 plan, to which Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. (hereinafter Vanderbilt) objects, came on for confirmation hearing on July 18, 2016. While Vanderbilt objects to the plan’s confirmation on a number of grounds, the initial dispute concerns whether the debtor’s plan may modify Vanderbilt’s rights under its claim.1 Vanderbilt contends that the rights under its claim are nonmodifiable under 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(2). Here, the court will limit consideration of the plan’s confirmation to the…