IN RE ACOSTA-RIVERA

No. 07-2736.

557 F.3d 8 (2009)

In re Iván ACOSTA-RIVERA and Aña A. Balseiro-Chacón, Debtors, Wilfredo Segarra-Miranda, Chapter 7 Trustee, Appellant, v. Iván Acosta-Rivera et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noemi Landrau Rivera and Landrau Rivera & Associates on brief for appellant.

Iván Acosta-Rivera and Aña A. Balseiro-Chacón on brief pro se.

Before LIPEZ, SELYA, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, which requires us to decide an issue of first impression at the federal appellate level, turns on the construction of a provision of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA or the Act), Pub.L. 109-8, 119 Stat. 23 (2005). Writ large, the provision in question expands the debtor's duties of financial disclosure to the extent that he or she must now file with the bankruptcy court, "unless the court...

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