Ross v. Maryland, Department of Business & Economic Development (In re Ross)

MEMORANDUM DECISION RE CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

S. MARTIN TEEL, JR., Bankruptcy Judge.

This addresses the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. For the reasons that follow, the court will avoid the debtor’s transfer of his interest in tenants by the entirety property, but will leave intact his wife’s transfer of her interest, for whatever, if anything, that avails the defendant.

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The debtor, Richard Ross, commenced this adversary proceeding as a debtor-in-possession under 11 U.S.C. § 1101, exercising the powers of a trustee pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1107(a). Invoking 11 U.S.C. §§…