Legal Opinion
Reinbold v. Thorpe (In Re Thorpe)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 31, 2018No. 17-1766PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Timothy and Belva Thorpe married in 1986 and bought a house together in Illinois in 1987. They lived in that home until shortly after Belva filed for divorce in October 2012. Timothy then filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2013. Finally, a month later, an Illinois divorce court awarded Belva the marital home. Belva and the trustee of Timothy’s bankruptcy estate now find themselves in a years-long dispute about whether the divorce court’s award should stand.
Rounds of litigation below have narrowed this appeal. It is undisputed that at the moment Belva filed for…
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