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BANKING LAW
V. Nicole (Nici) Comer, Esq. SVP/Corporate Counsel, South State Bank
Lindsey C. Livingston, Esq. Adams and Reese LLP
Overview
Forums As to Disputes
Lending – Commercial & Consumer
Consumer Issues
Banking Operations
Bankruptcy Overview
Jurisdiction/Forums As to Disputes
Magistrates Courts – Local Counties – up to
$7,500.00
Circuit Court – Criminal and Civil
Master in Equity – Foreclosures
Special Referee
Federal Court
Diversity of Parties (Citizenship/principal place of
business)
Amount in controversy exceeds $75,000
Bankruptcy Courts – Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12 & 13
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
Rights of parties – statutes, contracts or
case law
Articles 3, 4, and 9 – Uniform
Commercial Code (UCC)
Article 3: deals with negotiable instruments
(checks)
Article 4: banking transactions
Article 9: secured transactions
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Contracts
Note – Contract
Checking Accounts – Signature Card
Merchant Accounts – Merchant Agreement
Remote Deposit Agreement
Online Banking
ACH Agreement
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Unsecured/Secured
Note
Security Agreement (UCC)
What constitutes a “security interest”?
Written security agreement signed by debtor
(exceptions) describing the collateral,
Value given, and
Debtor has right in the collateral.
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Security Agreement (cont.) What is perfection? – Purpose is to give notice to the
work of a potential security interest; prior competing claims.
Adverse Claimants Other security interests
Levy on a judgment
Purchasers
Debtor in bankruptcy – Trustee
Methods Possession/Control
Actual
Control Agreements
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Security Agreement (cont.)
What is perfection? (cont.)
Titles – Vehicles, mobile homes, boats
Filing financial statements (UCC)
County where collateral located – fixtures and as extracted collateral or timber to be cut.
Location of Debtor – Everything else – furniture, fixtures, equipment, accounts receivables, etc.
Definition – Location of Debtor
State of formation for entities that must register to come into exists – corporations, LLC, LLP, LP, etc. (SC Secretary of State, www.scsos.com)
Other entities – Place of chief executive office
Foreign Debtor – Washington, D.C.
Individual – Principal residence
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Key Points to Remember UCC Statement is not a substitute for a
security agreement
Good for 5 years – Must be continued in last 6
months.
Relates back – do not lend on verbal
representation that debt has been paid – have
prior filing terminated.
File UCC within 10 days or lose in bankruptcy
UCC Financing Statement Example
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Recovery – Liquidation
Voluntary Surrender
Peaceful repossession allowed in S.C. – must be without breach of peace
Claim and delivery
Commercially reasonable sale
Private/public sale
Receivership
Maintain
Taxes and Insurance
Collect Income
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Mortgage Real estate closings – Unauthorized Practice of Law –
Wachovia v. Coffey
Recording procedure – County where property located
Title priority – Opinion letter, insurance
How is a title insurance claim processed?
Mortgage loan modification
Foreclosure – Judicial sale state
Appraisal rights
Owner occupied foreclosures
Deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure
1099 – Debt Forgiveness (Loan Balance – Appraised Value)
Mortgage Fraud – At Closing – Appraisals, deposits, flipping, etc.
Foreclosure Process in SC
1) Title Exam. A title exam must be performed to determine what parties may have mortgages, liens or other claims on the property. These other parties are then named as defendants in the foreclosure action.
2) Lis Pendens. The party foreclosing on a mortgage lien must file a lis pendens. The lis pendens gives constructive notice of the foreclosure action to any subsequent purchasers or creditors. A lis pendens must be filed no more than 20 days before the filing of the complaint and no less than 20 days prior to the entry of a foreclosure decree. If filed more than 20 days before the filing of the complaint, the lis pendens is automatically invalid. Service of the lis pendens must be made within 60 days after the date of its filing or it will be rendered invalid.
3) Summons and Complaint. A Summons and Complaint is filed detailing the legal grounds under which the Lender is entitled to foreclose its mortgage lien against the real property. Once filed, the Summons and Complaint is served on all defendants. Once served, the defendants have 30 days to respond to the Summons and Complaint. Responses to the Complaint may contest the amount due to Lender or the priority of its lien. Responses may also assert affirmative claims against the Lender.
Foreclosure Process in SC
4) Receiver. In some foreclosure actions it may be prudent to seek appointment of a receiver to collect rents, etc., from the property during the pendency of the action. Once appointed, the Receiver files monthly reports with the Court detailing its activities during the preceding month, particularly the income received and the expenses paid, as well as any repairs or other significant events during the month. The Receiver's appointment runs through the conclusion of the Foreclosure Action, and it is relieved of its duties following the issuance of a deed from the Court. During the Foreclosure Action, the Receiver is responsible for handling the real property, while the court is responsible for managing the foreclosure process and determining the rights of the parties.
5) Reference. Following the receipt of any responses to the Complaint, the Foreclosure Action is referred to the Master in Equity, a division of the Circuit Court specifically designated to hear real estate mortgage lien foreclosures. Generally, a reference is made upon consent by all parties not in default. However, should a party not consent to the reference, a motion for mandatory reference is proper in that a mortgage foreclosure action is equitable in nature.
Foreclosure Process in SC
6) Foreclosure Hearing. All defendants are given notice of the scheduled foreclosure hearing. At the hearing, the Master in Equity determines lien priorities and orders the foreclosure sale of the real property on a day certain.
7) Deficiency Judgment. In order to request a deficiency judgment against the borrower, the Lender specifically requests it in the Summons and Complaint and other pleadings filed with the court.
If a deficiency is waived, the foreclosure order will not be a personal
judgment against the borrower.
Absent such a waiver, the decree of foreclosure establishes a personal judgment against the borrower. There are two ways this personal judgment may be entered. First, the court may enter a personal judgment for the total debt after the hearing. The net proceeds of the sale are then applied to reduce the balance due on the judgment debt. Alternatively, the court can order that a deficiency judgment be granted after the sale. After the sale, the court determines the amount of the deficiency and enters a personal judgment for that amount. Under either procedure, the borrower or other proper defendants may demand that the property be appraised to determine if the high bid at sale was a fair price for the property.
Foreclosure Process in SC
8) Notice and Sale of the Property. Prior to the property being sold at a public foreclosure sale, a Notice of Sale must be advertised once a week for three weeks prior to the sale date in the local newspaper of general circulation.
Bidding: Lender determines the amount that it will bid at the foreclosure sale, typically either the lower of the amount of the indebtedness owed to it or the value of the real property. At the foreclosure sale, if the Lender waives its deficiency claim, the Lender may bid more than once at the sale and the sale is concluded that day with the property being sold to the highest bidder. If the Lender has specifically requested a deficiency, then the Lender may only bid once at the sale, and the bidding must remain open for a period of 30 days to allow for additional bids. In either case, a successful bidder must place a 5% deposit and has 20 days to comply with their bid. The Lender may credit bid at the sale.
9) Deed. Once the high bidder has complied with his or her bid, the Master in Equity executes a deed to the purchaser. Thereafter, title to the real property vests in the winning bidder and the Receiver is discharged of their duties.
The entire foreclosure process typically runs 120-260 days depending on a variety of factors, including: the number of parties to be served with the Summons and Complaint; issues with obtaining proper service of the Summons and Complaint on defendants; the responses received to the Complaint; the number of responses filed to the Summons and Complaint; and the Court's availability for scheduling hearings.
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
Workouts Forbearance, Modification and Extension Agreements
– Who Signs? Everybody with an interest in the transaction.
Lender Liability Breach of Contract
Fraud
Misrepresentation
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Breach of Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
Negligence
Unclean Hands
Unfair Trade Practice
Equitable Estoppel
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
Participation Loans – Issues
Rights of Participants
Lead Bank
Participating Bank
Allocation of Expense/Income
Decision Making – Lead Bank – with
exception
Completion of Foreclosure – ongoing
administration
Lending – Commercial and Consumer
(cont.)
You get a Judgment, now what? – Process for
Collecting!
Supplemental Proceeding
Garnishment of wages – Not available in South
Carolina
Receivers
Other counties/states
Counties – administrative transfer
States – file lawsuit to domesticate/file
Judgment rate of interest
Lending – Commercial and
Consumer (cont.)
Statute of Elizabeth – transfers
Intent to delay, hinder or defraud creditors;
Rebuttable presumption of fraud;
Where the transfer was not made on valuable consideration, no actual intent to hinder or delay creditors must be proven.
Instead, as a matter of equity, the transfer will be set aside if the plaintiff shows that (1) the grantor was indebted to him at the time of the transfer; (2) the conveyance was voluntary; and (3) the grantor failed to retain sufficient property to pay the indebtedness to the plaintiff in full – not merely at the time of the transfer, but in the final analysis when the creditor seeks to collect his debt.
Consumer Issues
Consumer Loan – Made by a person regularly engaged in the business of making loans in which: Debtor is a person other than an organization;
Debt is incurred primarily for personal, family, or household purposes;
Entire debt is payable in installments or a loan finance charge is made; and
Either the principal does not exceed $87,500 or the debt is secured by an interest in land. (1st mortgage loan excluded)
**The “purpose” of the loan determines if it is a consumer Loan – not the type of collateral.**
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
S.C. High Cost Home Loan Act
Targets practices commonly referred to as
predatory lending.
Requires lenders of high cost home loans to receive
written certification that a borrower has received
counseling from a HUD or South Carolina Housing
Finance Agency on “the advisability of the loan
transaction.”
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
South Carolina Consumer Protection Code (SCCPC)
Provides comprehensive regulation of many types of credit.
Applies to everything from consumer credit sales, insurance, and consumer leases to consumer rental purchase agreements.
Sets forth statutory remedies and civil penalties.
Does not apply to first mortgage on borrower’s residence
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”)
Massive and complex new law- aimed at addressing
systemic risks, corp. governance, hedge
funds/derivatives, proprietary trading as well as
consumer reform
Created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(“CFPB”)- authority to regulate consumer financial
services and providers
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Regulation Z – Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA)
Federal law requiring standardized disclosures to promote informed use of consumer credit.
It gives consumers the right to cancel certain credit transactions that involve a lien on a consumer's principal dwelling, regulates certain credit card practices, and provides a means for fair and timely resolution of credit billing disputes.
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
TILA Revised by Dodd-Frank
Qualified Mortgages New class of mortgages viewed as sufficiently safe to allow safe
harbor from restrictions/prohibitions imposed by the Act
Rebuttable presumption that the borrower has ability to repay
Key Features of QMs:
No excessive upfront fees/points
Borrower’s information for qualifying for loan is verified/documented
No toxic loan features- i.e. no interest only loans, negative
amortization loans, no balloons
Limits Debt-to-Income Ratios
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
TILA Revised by Dodd-Frank- General Rules/Prohibitions
Lender must ensure borrowers can repay loan over full term
Prepayment penalties banned for all adjustable rate and higher cost mortgages that are not QMs
Lender must disclose maximum payment and negative amortization
Residential mortgage loan cannot include financing of any credit insurance
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
REGULATION AA (UDAP)
Section 5(c) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended
(the “FTC Act”), prohibits a bank from engaging in unfair or
deceptive acts or practices (“UDAP”).
Prohibits Banks from including the following remedies in its
consumer credit obligations:
Confessions of Judgment at time of extension of credit
Waiver of Borrower’s opportunity to be heard in a lawsuit
Waiver of property exemptions provided under state law
Assignment of future wages
Security interest in household goods other than a purchase money
security interest (certain exceptions- art, antiques, jewelry (other than
wedding bands))
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
REGULATION AA- Cosigner Rule
“Cosigner” includes any person who assumes liability for a
consumer obligation without receiving goods, services, or money
in return.
Also includes any person whose signature is required as a condition to
(i) granting credit, or (ii) forestalling collection efforts on a consumer's
obligation that is in default.
Does not matter how the person is designated on credit application
Prohibits the Bank from misrepresenting a cosigner’s liability
Bank required to provide a Disclosure Notice to cosigner, prior to
becoming obligated in the consumer credit transaction,
explaining the nature of cosigner’s obligation.
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
REGULATION AA- Pyramiding Late Charges
Prohibits “pyramiding late charges” which is the imposition of a
late charge resulting from failure to pay an earlier charge.
Example: consumer makes the January payment 15 days late,
but makes the February payment on time and in full.
Bank may not cause the February payment to be considered delinquent
by deducting the late charge applicable to the January payment;
Rule does not prohibit late charges being assessed for every period that
a payment remains not fully paid
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Section 1301 of Dodd-Frank Act
Take Regulation AA one step further by prohibiting a
bank from engaging in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts
or practices (UDAAP).
UDAAP applies to any transaction with a consumer for a
consumer financial product or service, or the offering of
a consumer financial product or service (i.e. over draft
programs, ATM fees, credit card programs, ATM fees,
etc.)
CFPB enforces and can impose penalties and require
refunds
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
UDAAP What is “unfair’?
practice hinders a consumer’s decision making
Material information withheld so consumer cannot make an informed choice
What is “deceptive”?
practice misleads or is likely to mislead.
“reasonable” consumer would be misled.
presentation, omission or practice is material.
What is “abusive”?
practice materially interferes with the consumers ability to understand a term or
condition of a product or service.
practice takes unreasonable advantage of a consumer’s lack of understanding of
the risk, costs and conditions of a products or service
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Regulation B – Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Federal law that makes it unlawful for a lender to
discriminate on the basis of race, color religion,
national origin, sex, marital status, or age among
other things.
Applies with respect to any credit transaction.
Violation can result in civil liability.
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Fair Credit Reporting Act
Federal law regulating collection, dissemination, and
use of consumer credit information.
Enforced by the FTC.
Grants consumer rights to review/correct their credit
reports.
Violations can result in civil liability.
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Designed to stop abusive practices in the collection of
consumer debts.
Creates guidelines under which debt collectors may operate
and sets forth penalties for violations of the act.’
FDCPA generally applies only to third party debt collectors—
not internal collectors for an "original creditor"
Restricted to personal, family, or household transactions.
Lending –Consumer Protection Statutes
Mortgage Lending Act and Mortgage Broker
Licensing Act
Requires the registration and licensing of all
mortgage loan originators and brokers.
Mortgage loans includes manufactured housing.
Companies must be covered by a surety bond
determined using loan volume.
Once licensed, companies must file a report of each
loan application taken in SC.
Other Consumer Issues
Unconscionable Conduct – “Shocks the
Conscience”
Attorney Preference – Debtors right to
chose closing attorney – timing
Specific Notice Requirements –
Cosigner & Cure
Other Consumer Issues
Allowable Fees
Fee Authorization – Section 37-3-202
Lenders may charge certain specified fees in
addition to loan finance charges, including
charges for insurance, official fees and taxes,
and fees paid to registered mortgage loan
brokers
Adjustment Dollar Amount
SC Department of Consumer Affairs
Website – www.consumer.sc.gov
Other Consumer Issues
Disclosures – Use only Consumer Note
Forms
Mortgage Satisfaction Requirements –
within 90 days of payment in full –
request to satisfy
Penalty up to $25,000
Operations
Check Processing/Accounts
2008 Significant Changes
Article 3 & 4:
Variation by Agreement
Notice to Customer
Accord & Satisfaction
Post dated checks
Daily cutoff time – 2 p.m.
Time to review statements – 30 days
Operations (cont.)
Check Processing/Accounts (cont.)
Endorsements
Blank – Sign name only
Special – Pay to the order of . . .
Restricted – For Deposit Only
Maker liability/forgeries – Maker’s bank usually suffers loss
Endorser liability/forgeries – Person who has best opportunity to verify signature usually takes the loss
Representation and warranties – All signatures valid
Operations (cont.)
Check Processing/Accounts (cont.)
Stop Payments – How much time do you
have to process?
Whatever is reasonable – Is this one minute?
Bank responsibility to customers of joint
accounts
Customers Responsibilities
Operations (cont.)
EFT Fraud
For example, SC Dep’t of Consumer Affairs
previously issued a scam alert for student loan
repayment.
The scammers claimed to “have the secret to
erase student loan debt” based on the U.S.
Constitution.
Scammers told consumers to write “EFT
ONLY” on the check.
Operations (cont.)
Power of Attorney – Section 62-5-501 et
seq.
Durable
Recorded
Executed Property
Terminates Upon Death
Required to Accept?
Operations (cont.)
Subpoenas
Often arise in domestic disputes
Copies – redaction!
Removing Party from Account
Operations (cont.)
Identity Theft –
Upon determination, immediate action
should be taken
Consumers generally not liable on checks
they did not sign.
Banks have some statutory liability via the
Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Fair
Credit Billing Act.
Operations (cont.)
Right to Offset – What is it?
Contract
Statute – Section 62-6-113
Courts – Criteria:
Mutuality of Identify (joint accounts?);
Each debt due; and
Reasonable Notice
Offset Prohibited – In connection with
Credit card debt;
IRA account; and
Social Security funds
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous
Safe Deposit Boxes – Section 34-19-10 et seq.
Lease to minor – Yes
Access to box of decedent – Spouse, parent, child or
named PR – original Will, burial plot certificate, or
insurance policy.
Co-renters – rights
Failure to pay rent
1 year default – 30 day notice registered mail –
drill/inventory/notary – send inventory list – seal- store
for 2 years
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Banking with Minors – Section 34-11-20
“A bank may accept deposits of and pay out
deposits upon a check or other order of a minor
and act in any other matter with respect to the
deposits of a minor with the same effect as if
dealing with a person of full legal capacity.”
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Duplicate for Lost or Destroyed Certificates
of Deposits – Section 34-11-40 & 34-11-50
Holder of the certificate shall make affidavit
that the certificate has been lost and not
transferred, assigned, etc.
Depository can require the holder to execute
a bond to indemnify the depository for any
losses caused by the original certificate within
3 years.
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Adverse Claimants of Deposits – Section 34-11-
110
Adverse claimants must procure a restraining order,
injunction, or other appropriate process where the
person to whose credit the deposit stands is made a
party; or
The claimant must execute a bond indemnifying the
bank from all liability resulting from the payment of
the adverse claim.
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Types of Accounts – Section 62-6-101
Single
Joint
Multi-Party
P.O.D.
Trust
Vary By Agreement
Operations (cont.)
Miscellaneous (cont.)
Unclaimed Property Act – Section 27-18-10 et seq
Intangible property including income is presumed abandoned if unclaimed for more than 5 years.
Once determined abandoned, property is subject to the custody of the State of South Carolina if certain conditions are met such as if the last known address of the apparent owner is in South Carolina or the holder does not know the identity of the person entitled to the property and it is established that the last known address of the person entitled to the property is in South Carolina.
Bankruptcy
Chapters
Chapter 7 – Personal – Liquidation
Chapter 9 – Municipalities
Chapter 11 – Business – Reorganization
(occasionally used by consumers)
Chapter 12- Family Farmers
Chapter 13 – Consumer – Wage Earner
Chapter 15- Cross Border Insolvency
Chapter 7
Always used for liquidation
Available to anyone (individuals, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, farmers, fishermen)
Chapter 7 trustee appointed who takes control over all assets of the debtor
Trustee reviews the case carefully to see if there are any assets that can be found that can be liquidated and used:
To pay the trustee’s commission
To pay creditors
“Assets” include:
Tangible things (land, jewelry, watches, cars)
“Intangible things” (lawsuits, claims, insurance policies)
Chapter 11
Who can file: “Rich” individuals
Current trend, at least in South Carolina, is real estate owners/developers
Corporations
Why file/purposes: Reorganization
To receive protection from creditors who are seeking to collect and/or to change the terms of repayment of debts to those creditors (restructuring of the balance sheet)
The creditors that push a debtor into bankruptcy can be the obvious (banks) or the not so obvious (legacy debt, i.e. retiree claims)
Theoretically, a debtor could completely change the nature of its business but continue as a going concern
Partial reorganization To liquidate part of the debtor’s assets, pay off some creditors, reduce debt,
and continue as a going concern with what remains
Chapter 11
Partial Reorganization and Reorganization can also result in new ownership of the reorganized debtor, as existing shareholders are wiped out, and new shares in NEWCO are issued to creditors
Liquidation
Liquidate the assets, wind up the operations of the business
Chapter 11
All of the foregoing are generally
accomplished through a Chapter 11 plan
and disclosure statement:
Disclosure Statement: the Debtors’
autobiography
Who we were;
What went wrong;
How we’re gonna fix it.
The Plan: how we’re gonna fix it.
Chapter 13
Provides for adjustment of debts of an individual with
regular income.
Chapter 13 allows a debtor to keep property and pay
debts over time, usually three to five years.
Individual files a repayment plan for payment of their
debts.
Generally, a chapter 13 debtor is entitled to a discharge
upon completion of all payments under the chapter 13
plan.
Chapter 9
Governs reorganization of municipalities (which includes
cities and towns, as well as villages, counties, taxing
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts)
Must meet certain eligibility requirements
Court has limited power in Chapter 9 cases- cannot
interfere with the operations of the debtor or with the
debtor's use of its property and revenues.
Chapter 9 cases are rare, however, are being used more
frequently
Chapter 12
provides for adjustment of debts of a "family farmer," or a
"family fisherman" with regular annual income
Chapter 12 eliminates many of the barriers such debtors
would face if seeking to reorganize under either Chapter
11 or 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Chapter 12 is more streamlined, less complicated, and
less expensive than chapter 11
Chapter 15
Chapter added in 2005 to the Bankruptcy Code entitled
“Ancillary and Other Cross Border Cases.”
Governs cross-border insolvency
The purpose of Chapter 15 is to provide effective
mechanisms for dealing with insolvency cases involving
debtors, assets, claimants, and other parties of interest
involving more than one country.
Voluntary v. Involuntary
Voluntary:
i. “We’re in trouble, and we just cant take it anymore” or
ii. “We’re in trouble, our bank wants us to file”
Examples- Circuit City, Bi-lo
Involuntary: “We’re pretending that we’re fine, but our creditors don’t think so, and 3 or more of them with undisputed debts totaling $14,425.00, get together and put us in bankruptcy themselves.”
Bankruptcy
Notice of Filing
Date of filing and case number – important
Identification of Debtor, Debtor’s attorney and Trustee
Date of first meeting of Creditors
Whether the claim should be filed
Borrower/Deadline Dates
First Meeting of Creditors
Automatic Stay
The Automatic Stay
The automatic stay stops everything having to do with the collection of a debt.
Automatically in place upon filing of bankruptcy petition
Very broad; stays ALL collection actions and ALL actions to enforce security interests against the debtor
Thus, after a bankruptcy is filed, you cannot communicate with the debtor related to the collection of pre-bankruptcy debt, nor can you commence or continue any collection efforts against the debtor.
If a creditor knows about the debtor’s bankruptcy but continues to attempt to collect anyway, the creditor risks having to pay damages, including attorney’s fees, costs, and maybe even punitive damages.
Duration of the Automatic Stay
The automatic stay remains in effect throughout the bankruptcy case.
The stay with respect to property continues until the property is no longer property of the estate. This means that the stay continues with respect to
the property until the trustee abandons the property or the property is sold, or otherwise disposed of.
The stay of any other act continues until the earliest of: The time the case is closed.
The time the case is dismissed.
If applicable, the time a discharge is granted or denied.
Notice of Bankruptcy
When a bankruptcy case is filed, the bankruptcy court mails a notice to each scheduled creditors informing it of the case filing and other pertinent information.
The notice also will state whether a claim should be filed or not (e.g., if it is a “no asset” case, the notice will instruct you not to file a claim at this time).
If the notice says to file a claim, the notice also will (a) state the date by which the claim must be filed for governmental and non-governmental creditors (the “bar date”), and (b) include a “Proof of Claim“ form as an attachment to the notice.
http://www.scb.uscou
rts.gov/pdf/local_for
ms/poc.pdf
First Meeting of Creditors
341 Meeting- opportunity for creditors to
question the debtor under oath
Can ask anything- typically as about
collateral (i.e. insured, taxes paid, other
liens, intentions, ability to maintain
payments)
Questions?
How to Contact Us
V. Nicole (Nici) Comer:
South State Bank
803 540 2443 (direct)
Lindsey Carlberg Livingston:
Adams and Reese LLP
803 212 4409 (direct)