Legal Opinion
In Re Kane
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 21, 2010No. 09-4254PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BARRY, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Kane appeals the judgment of the District Court affirming the Bankruptcy Court’s decision not to apply judicial estoppel to the entirety of a proof of claim filed by his estranged wife in his bankruptcy proceeding, and its conclusion that Ms. Kane has standing to pursue equitable distribution as a post-petition claim in that proceeding. We will affirm.
I. Background
Shannon and Thomas Kane were married in August of 2004. Two years later, Ms. Kane filed for divorce in Mercer County, New Jersey, and moved to New York. In September of 2007, she…
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