When you owe money to others, you are not free to give assets away. Or retitle them. Or put them in an irrevocable trust. That’s the universal principle of Anglo-Saxon law that prohibits fraudulent transfers. But the concept of a gift being wrong in the law is among the most difficult for ordinary folks to […]
Consider The Clawback of Pre-bankruptcy Transfers Before Filing
If you don’t understand clawback in bankruptcy, you might think that bankruptcy involves only what you have when you file. But that’s not how it works. Bankruptcy law gives a bankruptcy trustee to power to unwind transactions and transfers that diminish what the debtor has on the day the case is filed. The idea is […]
