Happy Holidays! Sharp  Thinking No. 175    Perspectives on Developments in the Law from Sharp-Hundley, P.C.   December 2019 Chapter 13 Plan Confirmation Creates Judicial Estoppel Confirmation of a Chapter 13 plan is a sufficient benefit to estop the bankruptcy debtor from prevailing on an inconsistent position taken in state-court litigation the existence of which was…

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Banking Law Roundup SharpThinking No. 173    Perspectives On Developments In The Law From Sharp-Hundley, P.C.      October 2019 Refi Mortgage Can Take Priority Of Prior Mortgage                                         By John T. Hundley, John@sharp-hundley.com, 618-242-0200 A mortgage…

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It’s a common practice in transactions involving big corporations and large sums of consideration.
To alleviate concerns about whether a party has authority to conduct the transaction, sophisticated
parties often ask for an opinion of counsel that the opposing entity has such authority and that all
required prerequisites have been met.

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Seemingly settled practice regarding the interplay of bankruptcy and foreclosure law was turned on its head late last month when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a state court in a foreclosure case has jurisdiction and authority to enter a deficiency judgment against a debtor with a pending bankruptcy.

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The wage deduction provisions of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure leave a circuit court with no discretion to deny a request for a wage deduction order on grounds of extreme hardship, a panel of the Appellate Court in Chicago held recently.

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