Judge Says Joint Bankruptcy Can’t Proceed With Decedent’s Daughter Signing For Him

(July 17, 2023, 8:23 AM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — In what a bankruptcy trustee called a case of first impression, a South Carolina federal bankruptcy judge denied a motion filed by joint debtors to continue administration of their bankruptcy case to allow their daughter to sign on the husband’s behalf after he died, ordering that the case may proceed against the wife alone and finding that continued administration of the joint proceeding is not in the parties’ best interest. ...