United States Eleventh Circuit

Where a bankruptcy debtor created a trust for own benefit, her interest in the trust (a yearly income stream from trust assets) is not exempt from her bankruptcy estate under Florida law, but the corpus of the trust is not subject to the claims of her creditors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2002
• Published 08/28/2002

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BLACK and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Morris Gary Miller,Adorno & Zeder, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Lloyd Merrill, Cohen, Conway, Copeland, Copeland, Paiva & Merrill, P.A., Fort Pierce, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.