IN RE HINES

No. 96-55735.

147 F.3d 1185 (1998)

In re: Brenda F. HINES, Debtor. Robert L. GORDON, Appellant, v. Brenda F. HINES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don E. Bokovoy, Weintraub & Bokovoy, San Diego, California, for appellant.

Nathan Shilberg, Harold Shilberg, San Diego, California, for appellee.

Before: REINHARDT and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge.


SHADUR, District Judge:

This small-dollars but large-issue litigation poses a problem that pervades each of the many thousands of no-asset or low-asset personal bankruptcies in the federal court system: the legal posture of the attorneys' fees paid or payable by Chapter 7 debtors. Whether the debtor is required by his or her attorney to pay all of the fees up front — even before the filing in bankruptcy — or, as here, enters into a prefiling arrangement...

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