Legal Opinion
Zeddun v. Griswold (In re Wierzbicki)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2016No. 16-1334PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal illustrates how courts should determine whether a debtor in bankruptcy received reasonably equivalent value in deciding whether a pre-bankruptcy transfer of the debtor’s property amounted to a fraudulent transfer under 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(B). The bankruptcy court found that a transfer of a farm in this case was fraudulent and avoided the transfer. The district court affirmed, and so do we.
I. Factual and Procedural Background
Debtor Laura Wierzbieki owned a 40-acre farm in Cross Plains, Wisconsin, where she lived for a time with her three minor children and their father, appellant…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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