IN RE FRIDLEY

BAP No. 07-1276-KMoJ, Bankruptcy No. 06-40424-PBS.

380 B.R. 538 (2007)

In re Clinton FRIDLEY and Shannon, Debtors. Clinton Fridley; Shannon Fridley, Appellants, v. Karla Forsythe, Chapter 13 Trustee, Appellee.

United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 18, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darren C. Walker, Vancouver, WA, for Clinton and Shannon Fridley.

Gerald R. Pederson, Vancouver, WA, for Karla Forsythe, Ch. 13 Trustee.

Before: KLEIN, MONTALI and JURY, Bankruptcy Judges.


OPINION

KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.

This appeal from denial of a motion for entry of discharge presents the problem of whether and how a debtor may prepay a chapter 13 plan and obtain an early discharge. The precise question is whether the phrases "completion by the debtor of all payments under the plan" and "completion of payments under [the] plan" in 11 U.S.C. §§ 1328(a) and 1329(a) include an implied temporal requirement that the plan remain in...

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