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Professional Biography:
Christy Hancock’s practice is dedicated to financial services regulatory compliance and litigation. Her work with mortgage servicing and financial institution clients has given her a broad base of knowledge regarding laws affecting the mortgage servicing business, including bankruptcy and foreclosure best practices, payment application, correspondence requirements, allowable fees, loan modifications, escrow requirements, and property preservation. In recent years, the majority of her practice has focused on advising large financial institutions on bankruptcy-related regulatory matters and large-scale remediation projects.
In 2020, Christy emerged as a thought leader on the CARES Act and related state laws regarding mortgage forbearances, deferrals and other loss mitigation options, as well as foreclosure and eviction moratoriums. She hosts a weekly WebEx for Bradley’s financial services clients on COVID-19 mortgage servicing issues.
North Texas woman sentenced to federal prison for bankruptcy fraud scheme (Source: Raycom News Media) By KLTV Digital Media Staff | January 21, 2021 at 3:16 PM CST - Updated January 22 at 1:19 AM
SHERMAN, Texas – A 47-year-old Arlington woman has been sentenced to federal prison for a bankruptcy fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas.
Cotriena Machelle Embers pleaded guilty on August 10, 2020 to bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant. The judge left open the possibility of ordering restitution to the identity theft victim in the case.
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On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA 2021). Similar to the March 2020 CARES Act, several temporary changes to the Bankruptcy Code are included in Title X of the CAA 2021. Below, we examine four of the CAA 2021’s most significant changes to consumer bankruptcy laws. These changes are temporary and will sunset either on December 27, 2021, or December 27, 2022.
Section 1001 of Title X of the CAA 2021 addresses bankruptcy relief, including: a temporary revision to the definition of “property of the estate” to exclude certain federal coronavirus relief payments; temporary revisions to Section 1328 to permit a discharge notwithstanding the debtor’s failure to make all required mortgage payments under a confirmed plan; protection against discrimination in the loss mitigation process with respect to a borrower’s current or former bankruptcy status; permission to file suppl