In what the panel called a strained application of a legal fiction, the BAP for the Tenth Circuit found that money paid by the chapter 7 debtor’s mother directly to one of the debtor’s creditors was a preferential transfer where it preceded the bankruptcy by fewer than 90 days, was secured by a promissory note by the debtor, and favored one creditor over the debtor’s other creditors. Stevens, Littman, Biddison, Tharp and Weinberg, LLC. v. Walters (In re Wagenknecht), 2019 WL 2353534 (B.A.P. 10th Cir. June 4, 2019) (case no. 18-93).
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Payments made to a senior lienholder within 90 days of bankruptcy were avoidable as a preferential transfer in favor of the junior lienholder. Gladstone v. Bank of America (In re Vassau), No. 09-9536, AP 11-90280 (Bankr. S.D. Cal. Sept. 25, 2013). [Read more…] about Payments to Senior Lienholder Avoidable as to Junior Lienholder