{"id":4773,"date":"2019-11-18T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:52:16","slug":"adoption-assistance-payments-excluded-from-current-monthly-income-in-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Assistance Payments Excluded from Current Monthly Income in Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A debtors&#8217; Adoption Assistance payments were considered\n&#8220;benefits received under the Social Security Act&#8221; and were excluded from the\ncalculation of their current monthly income. The bankrupt debtors had proposed\na 21 percent (21%) plan and the trustee objected because they did not believe\nthe debtors were paying all their projected disposable income as required under\n11 U.S.C. Section 1325(b)(1)(B). The objection centered around the $2,325 per\nmonth in benefits the debtors received under the Adoption Assistance and Child\nWelfare Act of 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.istockphoto.com\/photos\/green-dollar-sign-in-green-and-white-picture-id104248221?k=6&amp;m=104248221&amp;s=612x612&amp;w=0&amp;h=8D3T1CHdwXS1ZpFQe0lIaOZG4WRgJSOPRV-uhDZTIjI=\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"127\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are thinking about filing for bankruptcy and would like\nto speak to an attorney, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our\nwebsite at Hoorfarlaw.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debtors&#8217; Adoption Assistance payments were considered &#8220;benefits received under the Social Security Act&#8221; and were excluded from the calculation of their current monthly income. The bankrupt debtors had proposed a 21 percent (21%) plan and the trustee objected because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4773\">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-4773","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\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}