Bankruptcy Law

Trump Tariffs Impacting Farmers. Are Your Ag Loans OK?

Posted on 07/26/2018 at 04:17 PM by Howard Hagen

Categories: Agribusiness Law, Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law

Tagged As: ag lending, Donald Trump, Howard Hagen banking & finance law, Iowa Agricultural Law, Pork, Soybeans, Tariffs

Since the tariff announcements, soybean futures are down 20 percent and pork futures are declining. Meanwhile, the...

Student Loans and Bankruptcy, Volume II

Posted on 06/29/2018 at 03:00 PM by William Reasoner

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Litigation, William Reasoner

Tagged As: Banking & Finance Law, bankruptcy, banks, consumer bankruptcy, debt, debtor, Department of Education, dischargeable debts, education, internet banking, Iowa banking, Iowa Bankruptcy Law, Michael Scott, online banking, proposed amendments, student loans, The Office

Remember my latest blog on the potential to discharge student loan debt? Well, the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern Dis...

So You’re Drowning in Student Loan Debt. Is it Time to Exclaim “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!”?

Posted on 06/19/2018 at 03:03 PM by William Reasoner

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Litigation, William Reasoner

Tagged As: Banking & Finance Law, bankruptcy, banks, commercial litigation, consumer bankruptcy, debt, debtor, Department of Education, dischargeable debts, education, internet banking, Iowa banking, Iowa Bankruptcy Law, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Michael Scott, online banking, proposed amendments, student loans, The Office

Let’s face the truth: as much as we all love The Office’s Michael Scott, none us of want to admit that we pr...

Avoiding Aggravation in Ag Lending

Posted on 04/04/2018 at 11:13 AM by The Newsroom

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Ben Bruner, Brad Kruse, David Repp, Jeff Baxter, John Lande, Mollie Pawlosky, Taxation Law

Tagged As: Banking & Finance Law - Des Moines Iowa, China, Ehtanol, Iowa Agricultural Law, Iowa banking law, Iowa Tax, Pork, Soybeans, Tariffs, tax attorney, tax code, tax help, tax law, Tax Law Des Moines Iowa, tax lawyer, Trump

In case you missed it, Dickinson's Banking Law Group gave a webinar presentation on avoiding aggravation in agricult...

What do Trump's Steel Tariffs Mean to Iowa Farmers?

Posted on 03/02/2018 at 08:52 AM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Ben Bruner, Brad Kruse, David Repp, Jeff Baxter, John Lande, Mollie Pawlosky

Tagged As: ag lending, agriculture, Banking & Finance Law, Banking & Finance Law - Des Moines Iowa, bankruptcy, banks, local attorneys

Growing uncertainty in the global commodity trade could mean an uncertain outlook for ag commodity prices in 2018 and be...

A Cautionary Tale to Banks: Avoiding a Civil Conspiracy During a Nonjudicial Voluntary Foreclosure

Posted on 12/06/2017 at 10:01 AM by William Reasoner

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Litigation & Trial Law, Real Estate & Land Use, William Reasoner

Tagged As: banking in Iowa, bankruptcy, bankruptcy lawyers, banks, civil conspiracy, estate lawyer, estate planning, estate planning attorney, federal lawyers, find a lawyer, foreclosures, fraud, fraudulent conveyance, internet banking, Iowa banking, Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa estate planning, Iowa real estate, Iowa Real Estate & Land Use, legal advice, litigation, litigation lawyer, local attorneys, nonjudicial voluntary foreclosure, online banking, probate, probate lawyer, property attorney, real estate attorney, real estate attorney near me, real estate lawyer, real estate lawyer near me, statutory redemption, trial attorney, trial law, trial lawyer

In an interesting case decided last November, the Iowa Court of Appeals held that transactions which occurred after a ju...

The sixth protection for agricultural borrowers during foreclosure

Posted on 03/02/2017 at 12:18 PM by Mollie Pawlosky

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Litigation, Mollie Pawlosky, Real Estate & Land Use

Tagged As: ag lending, agriculture, bankruptcy, foreclosures, Iowa banking law, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa farmland, protections for agricultural borrowers

The sixth protection: The borrower receives a right of first refusal, following the recording of the Sheriff's...

Callen applied to allow rescission after two years from decree date

Posted on 09/01/2016 at 10:39 AM by Mollie Pawlosky

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Mollie Pawlosky

Tagged As: Bank of America v Schulte, Bank One v Daniels, bankruptcy, foreclosures, Iowa banking law, Iowa Court of Appeals, Iowa Supreme Court, mortgage, US Bank v Lamb

In Bank One, N.A. v. Daniels, No. 15-1271 (August 17, 2016), the Iowa Court of Appeals issued its first opinion applying...

Feed supplier liens have priority over bank liens

Posted on 06/02/2016 at 08:50 AM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, John Lande

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa Supreme Court, liens, Oyens Feed & Supply Co. v. Primebank, priority of feed supplier's liens

Last Friday the Iowa Supreme Court brought greater clarity to lien law for credit extended to farmers. The dispute in Oy...

Bank allowed to pursue attorney's fees based on personal guaranty that did not merge into in rem judgment, but not awarded prejudgment interest on attorneys' fees

Posted on 03/07/2016 at 07:23 AM by Mollie Pawlosky

Categories: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Litigation, Mollie Pawlosky

Tagged As: attorney's fees, bankruptcy, DuTrac Community Credit Union v. Hefel, interest, Iowa bank, Iowa banking, Iowa Commercial Litigation, Iowa Court of Appeals

In DuTrac Community Credit Union v. Hefel, No. 15-0143 (Iowa Court of Appeals Nov. 25, 2015), the Iowa Court of Appeals...

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