2010 US Code
Title 11 - BANKRUPTCY
TITLE 11 - APPENDIX
FEDERAL RULES OF BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE AND OFFICIAL BANKRUPTCY FORMS
Rule 4005 - Burden of Proof in Objecting to Discharge
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 11 - BANKRUPTCY |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 11 - BANKRUPTCY TITLE 11 - APPENDIX FEDERAL RULES OF BANKRUPTCY PROCEDURE AND OFFICIAL BANKRUPTCY FORMS PART IV - THE DEBTOR: DUTIES AND BENEFITS Rule 4005 - Burden of Proof in Objecting to Discharge |
Contains | rule 4005 |
Date | 2010 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 7, 2011 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | As amended Mar. 30, 1987, eff. Aug. 1, 1987. |
Rule 4005. Burden of Proof in Objecting to Discharge
At the trial on a complaint objecting to a discharge, the plaintiff has the burden of proving the objection.
(As amended Mar. 30, 1987, eff. Aug. 1, 1987.)
Notes of Advisory Committee on Rules—1983This rule does not address the burden of going forward with the evidence. Subject to the allocation by the rule of the initial burden of producing evidence and the ultimate burden of persuasion, the rule leaves to the courts the formulation of rules governing the shift of the burden of going forward with the evidence in the light of considerations such as the difficulty of proving the nonexistence of a fact and of establishing a fact as to which the evidence is likely to be more accessible to the debtor than to the objector. See, e.g., In re Haggerty, 165 F.2d 977, 979–80 (2d Cir. 1948); Federal Provision Co. v. Ershowsky, 94 F.2d 574, 575 (2d Cir. 1938); In re Riceputo, 41 F. Supp. 926, 927–28 (E.D.N.Y. 1941).
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