In Re Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
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Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1302 · 11 U.S.C. § 1303 · 11 U.S.C. § 1306 · 11 U.S.C. § 1322 · 11 U.S.C. § 1327 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Taylor v. Freeland & Kronz · Telfair v. First Union Mortgage Corp. · United States v. Richman · Black v. United States Postal Service · Anderson v. Satterlee
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“Confirmation is the court’s approval of a contract, in effect, between the debtor and creditors... The focus must be on this confirmed statutory contract. There is nothing in the code that says the debtor must suffer through three years of paying projected disposable income if good fortune would allow him or her to make an earlier payoff. The object of the Code provision [§ 1325(b)(1)(B)] is not to force the debtor to make payments over a period of time; the object is to give creditors some recovery on their claims, even tough [sic] it may not be full recovery. 24”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Fuger
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