In re Fugate (Case No. 09-63133) 04/28/2011
The debtors filed a chapter 13 petition and subsequently converted to a chapter 7. After conversion, the United States trustee filed a motion to dismiss the debtors’ case under 11 U.S.C. § 707(b)(1) as an abuse of the provisions of chapter 7. Agreeing with an earlier decision issued by Judge Krumm, the Court concluded that the plain language of 707(b) only applies to cases filed under chapter 7 and that cases converted to chapter 7 from another chapter do not fall within the scope of that subsection.