{"id":4639,"date":"2019-08-21T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:08:59","slug":"failure-to-disclose-post-confirmation-asset-to-chapter-13-trustee-results-in-sanctions-against-debtors-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4639","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Disclose Post-Confirmation Asset to Chapter 13 Trustee Results in Sanctions Against Debtor&#8217;s Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\n2008, Debtor retained attorney MaGee to file her chapter 13 petition. The\nconfirmation order from her chapter 13 plan stated that, &#8220;the debtor shall\ninform the Trustee of any changes in circumstances or receipt of additional income\u2026&#8221;\nIn 2009, Debtor was involved in an automobile accident and reached a settlement\nof $25,000 on her Third Party Claim. In 2010, Debtor sued her own insurer and\nwas awarded $50,000 in 2011. Debtor never disclosed either claim to the chapter\n13 trustee or the bankruptcy court, but according to her, Attorney MaGee\ninformed her not to worry about the claims because the chapter 13 trustee&#8217;s\noffice was unlikely to catch any failure to disclose. The Ninth Circuit\nBankruptcy Appellate Panel upheld sanctions of $2,685 against MaGee for\nadvising the debtor not to disclose to the chapter 13 trustee a\npost-confirmation car accident recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2gg9evh47fn9z.cloudfront.net\/800px_COLOURBOX7935238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"231\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\nare thinking of filing for bankruptcy and need some help, call our law office\nat 816-524-4949 or visit our website at Hoorfarlaw.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Debtor retained attorney MaGee to file her chapter 13 petition. The confirmation order from her chapter 13 plan stated that, &#8220;the debtor shall inform the Trustee of any changes in circumstances or receipt of additional income\u2026&#8221; In 2009, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}