United States Fifth Circuit

In debtor's appeal from a district court's order affirming a bankruptcy court's judgment denying discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. section 727(a)(2), the order is reversed where: 1) the court was required to look to Louisiana law in order to determine whether debtor fraudulently transferred "property" or an "interest in property"; and 2) under Louisiana law, a valid pre-petition renunciation of an inheritance interest was not a transfer of the debtor's property under section 727(a)(2).

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2010
• Published 03/30/2010

Judges

• KING, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, JOLLY and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Behrooz P. Vida (argued), Vida Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Bedford, TX, for Laughlin.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey W. Steidley (argued), The Steidley Law Firm, Barnet Bernard Skelton, Jr., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.