Legal Opinion
Balance Point Divorce Funding, LLC v. Scrantom
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 21, 2013No. 13 Civ. 1049 PKCPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
P. KEVIN CASTEL, District Judge.
Private entities, like Balance Point Divorce Funding, LLC (“Balance Point”), lend money to parties to a divorce proceeding to cover fees and expenses in exchange for an obligation to repay when the matter is resolved. Timothy D. Scrantom and Lila Masters, then married, were parties to a divorce proceeding in Montana in which Balance Point provided funding to Ms. Masters. As it happens, Mr. Scrantom had an affiliation, or so it is alleged, with a competing funding company and its affiliates, defendants Jurídica Capital Management Limited,…
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