Lewis v. Harlin (In Re Harlin)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

COHN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This is a bankruptcy appeal in a Chapter 7 case. The Trustee, Wendy Turner Lewis, appeals from the decision of the Bankruptcy Court denying her motion for summary judgment and granting defendant’s, Janice D. Harlin (Harlin), motion to dismiss the Trustee’s adversary complaint. The issue on appeal is whether the debtor Edwin Harlin’s lump sum payment of a mortgage on a home owned by the debtor and Harlin, his wife, under the circumstances described below constitutes a fraudulent conveyance under Michigan law. The Court finds that it does…