Fixing Broke: Consumer Bankruptcy Diary
Fulton Tried to Put 13 in the Hospital, Falkner Tried to Put It in the Morgue.mp3
What is a city to do when so much of its annual operating budget relies on fines, forfeitures and parking tickets ( yes, parking tickets ) when pesky debtors and their attorneys file chapter 13 and wind up paying little or nothing on those claims? The answer appears to be clear. Go after the attorney’s life blood – their fees. Join Jody Bledsoe, host with his special guest, Mike Miller, to see how the City attacked the attorneys’ fees and how the 7th Circuit responded. Mike represented the appellees in the appeal where the question was clearly presented: Can an attorney be paid fees from a chapter 13 for the work done before unsecured creditors receive all of the debtor’s projected disposable income. You won’t want to miss the drama and learn how the future of chapter 13 in Chicago was clearly on the chopping block.
