18 U.S.C. § 155
Fee agreements in cases under title 11 and receiverships
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 155, Fee agreements in cases under title 11 and receiverships, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/448699
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Whoever, being a party in interest, whether as a debtor, creditor, receiver, trustee or representative of any of them, or attorney for any such party in interest, in any receivership or case under title 11 in any United States court or under its supervision, knowingly and fraudulently enters into any agreement, express or implied, with another such party in interest or attorney for another such party in interest, for the purpose of fixing the fees or other compensation to be paid to any party in interest or to any attorney for any party in interest for services rendered in connection therewith, from the assets of the estate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to establish a uniform law on the subject of bankruptcies.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994