property appreciation subsequent to their chapter 13 filing in a ease converted to chapter 7 serves the congressional purpose of encouraging chapter 13 reorganizations over chapter 7 liquidations, as reflected in the legislative history.”); In re Salvador B., No. 2.-05-CV-1107-GEB, 2006 WL 3300770, at *4 (E.D.Cal. Nov. 14, 2006) (“The legislative history indicates that equity created during the chapter 13 case is not property of the estate.”) (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted). In addition to these general constructions of the statute, specific holdings demonstrate that increases in equity produced by payments made as part of Chapter 13 plans revert to debtors and not the Chapter 7 estate upon conversion. See, e.g., In re Woodland, 325 B.R. 583, 586 (Bankr.W.D.Tenn.2005) (<HOLDING>); Pruneskip, 343 B.R. at 717 (holding that “the
holding that since property of the chapter 7 estate relates back to what was property of the bankruptcy estate when the chapter 13 was commenced and since the debtor still has the vehicle in his possession the present equity in the vehicle does not belong to the chapter 7 trustee or to unsecured creditors of this estate holding that funds held by chapter 13 trustee become property of the chapter 7 estate upon conversion not subject to exemption holding tort action accruing after original chapter 7 petition not part of estate when case converted to chapter 13 and then back to chapter 7 recognizing the distinction between the reorganized debtor and the converted debtor and holding an asset which was not property of the original chapter 11 estate does not become property of the converted chapter 7 estate holding that claims for alleged legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty against attorneys that represented the chapter 11 debtor in possession belonged to the bankruptcy estate and upon conversion of the case to chapter 7 such claims belonged to the chapter 7 trustee as successor to the debtor in possession