The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has now joined the Courts of Appeals from the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Circuits, and the Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) in holding that the absolute priority rule found in 11 U.S.C. § 1129(b)(2) (“the Absolute Priority Rule”) applies to limit individual debtors’ rights to retain prepetition property of their estate where their Chapter 11 plans propose to pay unsecured creditors less than the full amount of their allowed unsecured claims.  Zachary v.

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