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Luxurious Lifestyles Can Undermine the Good Faith Requirement for ?Proposed Chapter 11 Plans of Reorganization

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By: Spencer Nelson. St. John’s University School of Law. American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff Member. Luxurious lifestyles alone do not violate the good faith requirement for proposing a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). In In re Hamilton-Gaertner , a North Carolina Bankruptcy Court found that the debtor’s proposed Chapter 11 plan satisfied the good faith requirement of section 1129(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, desp