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Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: § 503. Allowance of administrative expenses

(a) An entity may timely file a request for payment of an administrative expense, or may tardily file such request if permitted by the court for cause.

(b) After notice and a hearing, there shall be allowed administrative expenses, other than claims allowed under section 502(f) of this title, including—

(1)(A) the actual, necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate including—

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: § 504. Sharing of compensation

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person receiving compensation or reimbursement under section 503(b)(2) or 503(b)(4) of this title may not share or agree to share—

(1) any such compensation or reimbursement with another person; or

(2) any compensation or reimbursement received by another person under such sections.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Sections 522(h) through 522(q)

(h) The debtor may avoid a transfer of property of the debtor or recover a setoff to the extent that the debtor could have exempted such property under subsection (g)(1) of this section if the trustee had avoided such transfer, if—

(1) such transfer is avoidable by the trustee under section 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, or 724(a) of this title or recoverable by the trustee under section 553 of this title; and

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Amendment History

[Pub. L. No. 98-353, §§ 306, 453, 98 Stat. 353, 375 (1984); Pub. L. No. 99-554, § 283(i), 100 Stat. 3117 (1986); Pub. L. No. 101-647, § 2522(b), 104 Stat. 4866 (1990); Pub. L. No. 103-394, §§ 108(d), 303, 304(d), 310, 501(d)(12), 108 Stat. 4112, 4132, 4133, 4137, 4145 (1994); Pub. L. No. 106-420, § 4, 114 Stat. 1868 (2000); Pub. L. No. 109-8, §§ 216, 224(a), (e)(1), 307, 308, 313(a), 322(a), 119 Stat. 55, 62, 65, 81, 87, 96 (2005); Pub. L. No. 111-327, § 2(a)(17), 124 Stat. 3559 (2010).]

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: § 523. Exceptions to discharge

(a) A discharge under section 727, 1141, 1192, 1228(a), 1228(b), or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an individual debtor from any debt—

(1) for a tax or a customs duty—

(A) of the kind and for the periods specified in section 507(a)(3) or 507(a)(8) of this title, whether or not a claim for such tax was filed or allowed;

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Sections 524(a) through 524(f)

(a) A discharge in a case under this title—

(1) voids any judgment at any time obtained, to the extent that such judgment is a determination of the personal liability of the debtor with respect to any debt discharged under section 727, 944, 1141, 1192, 1228, or 1328 of this title, whether or not discharge of such debt is waived;

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Section 524(g)

(g)(1)(A) After notice and hearing, a court that enters an order confirming a plan of reorganization under chapter 11 may issue, in connection with such order, an injunction in accordance with this subsection to supplement the injunctive effect of a discharge under this section.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Sections 524(h) through 524(j)

(h) Application to existing injunctions. For purposes of subsection (g)—

(1) subject to paragraph (2), if an injunction of the kind described in subsection (g)(1)(B) was issued before the date of the enactment of this Act, as part of a plan of reorganization confirmed by an order entered before such date, then the injunction shall be considered to meet the requirements of subsection (g)(2)(B) for purposes of subsection (g)(2)(A), and to satisfy subsection (g)(4)(A)(ii), if—

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Section 524(k)

(k)(1) The disclosures required under subsection (c)(2) shall consist of the disclosure statement described in paragraph (3), completed as required in that paragraph, together with the agreement specified in subsection (c), statement, declaration, motion and order described, respectively, in paragraphs (4) through (8), and shall be the only disclosures required in connection with entering into such agreement.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Sections 524(l) through 524(m)

(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title the following shall apply:

(1) A creditor may accept payments from a debtor before and after the filing of an agreement of the kind specified in subsection (c) with the court.

(2) A creditor may accept payments from a debtor under such agreement that the creditor believes in good faith to be effective.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Amendment History

[Pub. L. No. 98-353, §§ 308, 455, 98 Stat. 354, 376 (1984); Pub. L. No. 99-554, §§ 257(o), 282, 283(k), 100 Stat. 3115–3117 (1986); Pub. L. No. 103-394, §§ 103, 111(a), 501(d)(14), 108 Stat. 4108, 4113, 4145 (1994); Pub. L. No. 109-8, §§ 202, 203(a), 1210, 119 Stat. 43, 194 (2005); Pub. L. No. 111-327, § 2(a)(19), 124 Stat. 3559 (2010); Pub. L. No. 116-54, § 4(a)(9), 133 Stat. 1086 (2019).]

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: § 525. Protection against discriminatory treatment

(a) Except as provided in the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, and section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes,” approved July 12, 1943, a governmental unit may not deny, revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew a license, permit, charter, franchise, or other similar grant to, condition such a grant to, discriminate with respect to such a grant against, deny employment to, terminate the employ

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: Listing of Provisions

TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

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CHAPTER 9—BANKRUPTCY

18 U.S.C. § 151. Definition

18 U.S.C. § 152. Concealment of assets; false oaths and claims; bribery

18 U.S.C. § 153. Embezzlement against estate

18 U.S.C. § 154. Adverse interest and conduct of officers

18 U.S.C. § 155. Fee agreements in cases under title 11 and receiverships

18 U.S.C. § 156. Knowing disregard of bankruptcy law or rule

18 U.S.C. § 157. Bankruptcy fraud

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Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 151. Definition

As used in this chapter, the term “debtor” means a debtor concerning whom a petition has been filed under Title 11.

[Act of June 25, 1948, c. 645, 62 Stat. 689; Pub. L. No. 95-598, § 314(b)(1), 92 Stat. 2676 (1978); Pub. L. No. 103-322, § 330008(5), 108 Stat. 2143 (1994).]

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 152. Concealment of assets; false oaths and claims; bribery

A person who—

(1) knowingly and fraudulently conceals from a custodian, trustee, marshal, or other officer of the court charged with the control or custody of property, or, in connection with a case under title 11, from creditors or the United States Trustee, any property belonging to the estate of a debtor;

(2) knowingly and fraudulently makes a false oath or account in or in relation to any case under title 11;

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 28 U.S.C. § 1411. Jury trials

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this chapter and title 11 do not affect any right to trial by jury that an individual has under applicable nonbankruptcy law with regard to a personal injury or wrongful death tort claim.

(b) The district court may order the issues arising under section 303 of title 11 to be tried without a jury.

[Added by Pub. L. No. 98-353, § 102(a), 98 Stat. 335 (1984).]

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 28 U.S.C. § 1452. Removal of claims related to bankruptcy cases

(a) A party may remove any claim or cause of action in a civil action other than a proceeding before the United States Tax Court or a civil action by a governmental unit to enforce such governmental unit’s police or regulatory power, to the district court for the district where such civil action is pending, if such district court has jurisdiction of such claim or cause of action under section 1334 of this title.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 28 U.S.C. § 1927. Counsel’s liability for excessive costs

Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.

[Act of June 25, 1948, c. 646, 62 Stat. 957; Pub. L. No. 96-349, § 3, 94 Stat. 1156 (1980).]

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 155. Fee agreements in cases under title 11 and receiverships

Whoever, being a party in interest, whether as a debtor, creditor, receiver, trustee or representative of any of them, or attorney for any such party in interest, in any receivership or case under title 11 in any United States court or under its supervision, knowingly and fraudulently enters into any agreement, express or implied, with another such party in interest or attorney for another such party in interest, for the purpose of fixing the fees or other compensation to be paid to any party in interest or to any attorney for any party in interest for services rendere

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 156. Knowing disregard of bankruptcy law or rule

(a) Definitions. In this section—

(1) the term “bankruptcy petition preparer” means a person, other than the debtor’s attorney or an employee of such an attorney, who prepares for compensation a document for filing; and

(2) the term “document for filing” means a petition or any other document prepared for filing by a debtor in a United States bankruptcy court or a United States district court in connection with a case under title 11.

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 157. Bankruptcy fraud

A person who, having devised or intending to devise a scheme or artifice to defraud and for the purpose of executing or concealing such a scheme or artifice or attempting to do so—

(1) files a petition under title 11, including a fraudulent involuntary petition under section 303 of such title;

(2) files a document in a proceeding under title 11; or

Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice: 18 U.S.C. § 1519. Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy

Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.