Legal Opinion
Wiggains v. Reed (In re Wiggains)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 14, 2017No. 15-11249PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:
The bankruptcy court held that an agreement between the debtor and his spouse that partitioned their homestead property was a fraudulent transfer. Consequently, the non-debtor spouse had no interest in the proceeds from the sale of the homestead. This court granted the parties’ joint request to permit an appeal directly to this court. We AFFIRM.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Jeremy Wiggains and his wife Tanya, married since 2007, purchased an expén-sive home in an exclusive Dallas suburb in late 2012. During their brief residency, the couple made valuable…
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