In Re Mathis’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “are not required to pay anything to unsecured creditors because of the mandatory calculation of income and expenses under § 1325(b)(2) and (b)(3). The trustee would require debtors who can pay arrearages on secured debt during the initial months of the plan to keep their cases open for 60 months with plan payments of $0 and a payout to unsecured creditors of $0. Debtors would be kept in a pointless bankruptcy “limbo” in which no payments are owed but no discharge is granted. As the court noted in In re Fuger, 347 B.R. 94 , 101 (Bankr.D.Utah 2006), “[I]t makes little sense to hold the debtor hostage for 60 months where the debtor can satisfy the requirements of § 1325(b)(1)(B) in a shorter period.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Danielson v. Flores