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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:20 pm
Gio: u r right. Venue is not reflected on the forms. Regardles, we must file in the location most advantageous to our clients. Good work.
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Giovanni Orantes wrote:
> I had an hour-long argument today with Judge Klein because, among other things, I filed a Chapter 13 in Los Angeles, where the Debtor has title to his property with the highest value, instead of in Riverside, which is where his case would be filed if based on where he lives. Her position was that my client was dishonest because in the "address" box of the petition firm, he wrote the Los Angeles address even though his principal residence is in San Bernardino. She added that to other factors to find bad faith as dozens of attorneys who were waiting for us to finish will attest, even though I told the Judge that I had to put the address of his L.A. property in the "address" box for ecf to file it in Los Angeles, but nobody ever said that that was his principal residence, which everything else I filed said was in San Bernardino.
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> Exactly one week ago, I also got in trouble with Judge Zurzolo because I used the debtor's new rental address in the S.F. Valley in a second 11 and was assigned to a Valley judge. I explained to him that the attorney for the bank was making the above argument, too (that the "address" in the petition means the debtor's "principal residence") and that I, therefore, would have given her more fodder to attack me and would have basically had to lie if I had listed the address of one of the debtor's L.A. properties in that box. Unlike Judge Klein, Judge Zurzolo agreed with me and dissolved the OSC he had set lamenting that there is no place on the petition where I could have explained what happened.
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> I give you the above anecdotes for your information only. In many other cases, I haven't had any problem.
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Gio: u r right. Venue is not reflected on the forms. Regardles, we must file in the location most advantageous to our clients. Good work. Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 16, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Giovanni Orantes <
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