When a mortgagee is discharged from bankruptcy, how does that affect the mortgagee's right to collect the rents?

Of course as with any general rule of law, the rule varies according to jurisdiction. The court first looks to the federal bankruptcy law to supply the answer because the discharge was a product of that court. The federal courts have decided that the question is to be answered by state law. Specifically, the mortgagee's right to rents collected during a mortgagor's bankruptcy is determined by the law of the state where the property was located ( Butner v. United States, 440 U.S. 48, 99 S.Ct. 914, 59 L.Ed.2d 136 [1979] ).