Umesh Patel and Lee Umesh Patel

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

3 In re: UMESH PATEL and LEE ) Case No. 09-39791-C-

PATEL, )

Debtors. ) Dkt. Control No. RPG-1 ________________________________) 6 OPINION ON MOTION TO CONVERT OR DISMISS CHAPTER 11 CASE Before: Christopher M. Klein, Bankruptcy Judge _________________ 9 Marc C. Forsythe, Robert P. Goe, Goe & Forsythe, LLP, Irvine, CA, for 1332 Broadway Note LLC. Timothy T. Huber, Law Offices of Timothy T. Huber, El Dorado Hills, CA, for Revested Debtors. _______________ 13 CHRISTOPHER M. KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge: The individual debtors’ chapter 11 plan committed all their “disposable income as defined in 11 U.S.C. § 1129(a)(15)(B)” to pay the unsecured class for 84 months. No such payments were made. At the end of the plan term, an unsecured creditor invoked the plan’s default provision to request conversion or dismissal. The question is whether there ever was actual “disposable” income. Who has what burdens…