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King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit Rejects Claw Back for Third Party Guaranty

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On February 21, 2024, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit held that a debtor who receives several direct benefits from a loan to an operating company has received “reasonably equivalent value” in exchange...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Why Avoidance Actions Are Difficult to Dismiss by a Rule 12(b)(6) Motion

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Traditional avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code, i.e., preferences and fraudulent transfers, have laudable goals: (a) to provide equal treatment to creditors of an insolvent company and (b) to claw back otherwise...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

First Circuit Holds that Parents’ Tuition Payments for Adult Children Are Fraudulent Transfers

Recently, the First Circuit held that a parent’s tuition payments on behalf of an adult child do not benefit the parent’s bankruptcy estate, and a Chapter 7 trustee may therefore claw the payments back as fraudulent...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Trustee Litigation Trend: Tuition Clawback

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success (1758). For parents paying their adult child’s college education costs, however, this...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Storm Preparation: Dealing With Financially Troubled Companies and Avoiding Clawbacks

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The current state of the U.S. economy is relatively strong. That said, every economy remains subject to the normal ups and downs of the business cycle. Eventually, dark clouds will gather and businesses will be required to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Avoidance Actions Under Section 544(b): State Fraudulent Transfer Statutes and More

Creditors’ recoveries often hinge on claw-back lawsuits that trustees bring under bankruptcy law and non-bankruptcy law. Trustees can file claims based on non-bankruptcy law because Bankruptcy Code section 544(b) allows them...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Are College Tuition Payments Subject to Claw Back by Bankruptcy Trustees? - It Depends.

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Bankruptcy Courts throughout the country are split on the socially charged issue of whether tuition payments made by parents for their adult children can be recovered by a bankruptcy trustee as “constructively fraudulent”...more

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SDNY Joins the Rush Party, Rules for Trustee in Another Child Tuition Clawback Case

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We at the BCLP Global Insolvency and Restructuring Developments (the GRID) continue to watch and cover the growing jurisprudence of trustees seeking to recover pre-petition tuition payments made by a debtor parent to support...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The Trend Reverses: College Tuition Payments Shielded from Avoidance in Bankruptcy - Bankruptcy Court Rules in Favor of University...

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It is the start of a new semester, and all across the country, parents are writing tuition checks to the colleges and universities that their children attend. Colleges accept the checks on behalf of the students, the tuitions...more

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Reversing the Trend: Will Congress Act to Except College Tuition Payments from Clawback in Bankruptcy? - Congress Weighs...

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A trend emerging in consumer bankruptcy cases around the U.S. is causing concern for many parents, students and undergraduate schools. As was reported by The Wall Street Journal in an article published on May 5, 2015, an...more

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