ABI

JANUARY 19, 2024

In evaluating the Texas Business & Commerce Code and title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, in In Re Burts Construction, Inc., held that a secured creditor has the right to receive monetary payment for property sales based on its lien on “accounts.”

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Fraser

JUNE 25, 2020

The petition date is the date on which a debtor files a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The debtor is required to serve all known creditors with notice of the commencement of the chapter 11 case. Such relief may include a request to pay some unsecured creditors (such as employees or “critical vendors”) ahead of others.

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PBWT

JANUARY 19, 2021

In 2019, we began following a Circuit split regarding a secured creditor’s obligation to return collateral that it lawfully repossessed pre-petition after receiving notice of a debtor’s bankruptcy filing. ” [ii] In December, the Supreme Court granted certiorari and on Thursday adopted the minority view.

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