Bird v. McCauley (In re McCauley)

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER ON BANKRUPTCY APPEAL

TENA CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This appeal arises from the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Eugene V. McCauley, Jr. When Mr. McCauley filed his bankruptcy petition, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were living on a ranch in Ballard, Utah (“the Ballard property”). Record title to the Ballard property was held by R.E. McCau-ley, LLC (REM), an LLC formed by Mr. McCauley’s mother. Two weeks after Mr. McCauley filed his bankruptcy case, his sister, Susan Knorr, acting as REM’s manager, signed a deed conveying the Ballard property to herself and her other two…