Kornfield, Nyberg, Bendes, Kuhner & Little P.C.

01/16/2025

A realtor stopped by my office with these flowers for me. He’s got great flower taste.

09/01/2021

The 9thCircuit had previously held in In re Rosson that a debtor’s absolute right to dismiss their chapter 13 case was limited and that the bad faith conduct of a debtor was grounds to deny a request for dismissal and instead convert the case to chapter 7. The Supreme Court’s subsequent ruling i...

01/02/2020

Good news for Chapter 13 Debtors.

In In re Black, the 9th Circuit BAP overturned the bankruptcy court and held that a Chapter 13 Trustee cannot modify a chapter 13 plan to require debtors

07/10/2019

Pro-per Debtors with four bankruptcies under their belts and with 104 months of mortgage payment default (8.6 years) lost their appeal of the bankruptcy court'

07/03/2019

the 9th Circuit BAP affirmed a bankruptcy court's judgment not allowing discharge of a student loan, finding that a Debtor did not establish the third prong of

05/16/2019

In In re Mrdutt, The BAP firmly committed itself to the emerging position that direct payments to creditors are plan payments, and a debtor's failure

09/27/2018

We've moved upstairs! Now located in suite 600, 1970 Broadway, Oakland

06/04/2018

The debtor's oral statement to his attorney that he expected to receive a $100k tax refund which would more than cover his incurred attorney fees was a statemen...

05/31/2018

04/17/2018

The Ninth Circuit, in In re Gilman,  Case No. 16-55436, has determined the Supreme Court’s decision in Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank , 135 S. Ct. 1686 (2015) was n...

04/13/2018

The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit in Lewis v. Kaelin (In re Cresta Technology Corp.) has held that an unauthorized post-petition transfer occ...

03/06/2018

The California Supreme Court held that a dissolved law partnership is not entitled to profits derived from its former partners' work on unfinished hourly fee ma...