The Fifth Circuit certified questions of Texas state law to the Texas Supreme Court regarding permissibility of alcohol permit transfer(s) as part of a proposed sale.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Circuit) held that Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (Roth IRAs), like customary Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) accounts, are...
Judge(s):
Charles R. Wilson; Barbara Lagoa; and Edward E. Carnes
Bankruptcy court's decision awarding attorney fees to attorney that represented trustee reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with the opinion.
Under section 547(b) and Colorado law, a deed of trust filed after the debtor transferred title to property, even if the transfer is to a trust controlled by the debtor, does not become a transfer...
The bankruptcy court (BC), the Third Circuit (Panel) resolved, had misapplied the framework limned in a prior circuit opinion for analyzing the nature of the provided services of some insurers to...
Judge(s):
Julio M. Fuentes; Peter J. Phipps; and Cheryl A. Krause
Under California probate law, the execution of a written disclaimer of an interest in a trust by a beneficiary is insufficient to makes the disclaimer a voidable transfer under California's...
Albeit agreeing with the district court that it (as well as itself) had statutory subject matter jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Panel) concluded that the district...
Judge(s):
James B. Loken; Steven L. Grasz; and Jonathan A. Kobes
Presented with a creditor (CR) seeking to avoid the discharge of debt allegedly caused by a nondebtor spouse's fraud, the BAP found that the CR's non-dischargeability complaint had been...
Judge(s):
Scott H. Gan; Christopher M. Klein; and Laura S. Taylor
In a two-part opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Panel) held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not preempt a bankrupt entity's creditor's state...
Judge(s):
Michael S. Kanne; Ilana K. D. Rovner; and David F. Hamilton
The BAP held that a standing trustee is entitled to collect the statutory fee under § 586(e) upon receipt of each payment under the Chapter 13 Plan and is not required to disgorge the fee if the...
Judge(s):
Honorable Lafferty, Spraker, and Gan, Bankruptcy Judges
