United States Ninth Circuit

In a chapter 7 proceeding, obligation to pay pre-petition legal services is subject to automatic stay and discharge even where the debtor has agreed to pay the debt in installments under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 1006(b).

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 06/07/2001
• Published 06/07/2001

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge;  NOONAN and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. O'Neal,American Law Center, Sacramento, California, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter H. Carroll, Office of the U.S. Trustee, Fresno, California, for the appellee.