In Re Ronald L. JORDAN, Debra L. Jordan, Debtors. Karen L. HERRIN, Trustee, Appellant, v. Ronald L. JORDAN, Debra L. Jordan, Appellees

ALARCON, Circuit Judge:

Karen Herrin, the trustee in bankruptcy, appeals from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel’s (BAP’s) judgment affirming the bankruptcy court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the debtors Ronald and Debra Jordan.

We must decide whether a trust containing restrictions against assignment and alienation, created to compensate a debtor for the release of his personal injury claim, is a spendthrift trust under Washington law and is, therefore, excludable from his estate pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 541(c)(2). The BAP affirmed the Bankruptcy Court’s judgment that the trust created…