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The Trustee's Power to Avoid Fraudulent Transfers


Avoidance and Recovery of Transfers - LifeBack Law Firm, P.A.

Fraudulent transfers are no joke when filing bankruptcy and the trustee has the power to avoid and recover these transfers. The timeframe ...

Second Circuit Rules that Bankruptcy Safe Harbor Preempts State ...

In general terms, under state law or the Bankruptcy Code, a constructive fraudulent conveyance is a transfer of property for less than ...

Fraudulent Conveyances and Bankruptcy | Steven Grace Law

A trustee's action to set aside a fraudulent transfer is primarily based on the debtor's subjective intent to defraud and whether the transfer ...

What are a bankruptcy trustee's avoidance powers?

Void any transfer of property that is found to be fraudulent, such as when a debtor tries to hide their assets by giving them away to someone ...

A Survey of the Fraudulent Conveyance in Bankruptcy

the conveyance has been declared fraudulent. 46. B. Limitations on the Power of the Trustee to Avoid a. Fraudulent Transfer. 1. Necessity for Creditor with ...

Commencing State Law Avoidance Actions in NYS - Phillips Lytle LLP

Bankruptcy trustees and debtors-in-possession seeking to avoid fraudulent transfers under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code are limited to ...

Attorney for Preference Actions and Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation

He or she represents unsecured creditors and makes sure they receive as much as they can in the bankruptcy. However, the trustee can also force creditors to ...

A Trade Creditor's Guide to Defending the "Wrong Payor" Fraudulent ...

This is known as the trustee's “avoidance powers,” referring to the trustee's power to avoid or “claw back” payments made to creditors by a debtor. A trustee is ...

Trustees Avoidance of Transfer | Chapter 7 | Patricia Scott

The trustee successfully avoided this transfer as a fraudulent transfer, and the Court disallowed the debtor's claimed Michigan tenancy by ...

Client Alert - Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The court further reasoned that the opposing position would have resulted in leaving both the trustee and the IRS without the right to avoid offending transfers ...

Renunciation of a Legacy or Devise as a Fraudulent Transfer Under ...

the trustee the power to collect the bankrupt's assets, including those which were transferred to avoid his creditors. 2 Since the state law in. 25. Id. at ...

When Business Planning Triggers the Fraudulent Transfer Law

However, if a creditor can show a debtor fraudulently transferred assets to an LLC (e.g., through a contribution of capital), the transfer to ...

FRAUDULENT TRANSFERS -TRUSTEE'S ASSIGNEE

trustee assign his right to set aside a fraudulent conveyance made by the ... right to avoid all fraudulent conveyances and incumbrances." Appar- ently ...

Guarantees and Section 548(a) (2) of the Bankruptcy Code

ruptcy10 the power to avoid, as fraudulent conveyances, certain. 7 ... The trustee can also avoid a fraudulent conveyance under the appropriate state law.

Look-Back Period in Avoidance Actions

The ability of a bankruptcy trustee or chapter 11 debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) to avoid fraudulent transfers is an important tool promoting ...

Seventh-Circuit-Holds-Transfer-that-Does-Not-Diminish-Estate-is ...

The Trustee commenced an action against LSQ to avoid the $10.3 million payment to LSQ as a preferential transfer under § 547(b) or a fraudulent ...

Fraudulent Conveyance: What it is, How it Works - Investopedia

Actual fraudulent conveyance is the intentional disposal of property to avoid taxation or protect assets. Constructive fraudulent conveyance is an unfair ...

Supreme Court Narrows Bankruptcy “Safe Harbor” Fraudulent ...

The Bankruptcy Code empowers bankruptcy trustees to avoid certain “constructive fraudulent” transfers made when an insolvent debtor received ...

Defining Reasonably Equivalent Value Under Section 548(A) Of The ...

to avoid fraudulent transfers, trustees may protect creditors' interests in the ... fraudulent transfer effectively would be granting the debtor a de facto right ...

SOUTHEASTERN BANKRUPTCY LAW INSTITUTE 2014 A PRIMER ...

This duty includes the obligation to exercise the powers granted under Bankruptcy Code sections 547 and 548 to avoid preferential and fraudulent transfers. The ...