When A Trustee Is A Creditor In Your Bankruptcty Case

March 3, 2008

There are a few case trustees in New York who also serve as creditor attorneys; I am aware, for example, that one of the Chapter 13 trustees in the Eastern District of New York is an attorney for Ford Motor Credit in bankruptcy-related matters.

What happens when your case is assigned to one of these trustees? Simple - the case is reassigned.

My colleague, Kansas City bankruptcy attorney Rachel Foley, mentions this phenomenon in a recent post on her blog as well - which goes to show that the problem is not limited to New York cases.

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Posted by Jay Fleischman, New York Bankruptcy Lawyer | Filed Under Bankruptcy Process and Procedure, Blog 

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