In re Gervais

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION REGARDING PROCEEDS OF RULE 9019 COMPROMISE

MELVIN S. HOFFMAN, Bankruptcy Judge.

Anne J. White, the chapter 7 trustee of the estate of Joan Gervais, the debtor in this case, and Ms. Gervais’s prepetition divorce counsel, Kimberlie J. Sweet, are parties to a court-approved compromise pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9019. Their dispute was over who had the superior claim to $15,377.02 representing Ms. Ger-vais’s share of proceeds from the sale of real estate. Ms. Sweet claimed a right in the proceeds by virtue of her pre-bank-ruptcy attachment of the real estate to secure her…