The Fox Rothschild In Solvency blog previously covered the Supreme Court’s decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald, 142 S. Ct. 1770 (2022), in which the 2017 amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 1930(a)(6) increasing ...

Question: My wife and I are interviewing potential trustees to take care of things when we are gone. How do trustees usually get paid? Do we pay them now or do they take fees from our accounts after ...

July 19, 2023 - In Siegel v. Fitzgerald, 142 S. Ct. 1770 (June 6, 2022) (Siegel), the United States Supreme Court held that Congress' 2018 increase in fees that must be paid by debtors in bankruptcy ...

The decision, in essence, takes an hourly fee arrangement between the trustee and the trustee's attorneys and adds a results-based contingency to the approval of any fee payment authorization by the ...

A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may be creating a tsunami of concern to those attorneys and law firms that regularly represent bankruptcy trustees. The decision, ...