Legal Opinion
Pangea Capital Mgmt., LLC v. Lakian
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 26, 2018No. Docket No. 17-3209; August Term, 2018PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Katzmann, Chief Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether a spouse's interest in real property, which was allocated to her first in a trust agreement (giving her a 50% interest) and *3then in a divorce judgment (giving her a 62.5% plus $75,000 interest), takes priority over a judgment creditor's interest in the same property, when the judgment creditor has docketed its judgment in the county where the real property is located and the spouse has not. This determination hinges on an issue of state law for which there is no controlling decision of the New York Court of Appeals, and on which…
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