United States Fifth Circuit

In defendant's appeal from the district court's order granting a receiver's petition imposing an equitable lien on defendant's condominium and ordering defendant to transfer it to the receiver, the order is affirmed where: 1) federal law created subject matter jurisdiction for federal receivers, under 28 U.S.C. section 754; 2) in Florida, an equitable lien can be imposed on a homestead where an innocent party used fraudulently obtained funds to invest in the homestead; and 3) defendant was no worse off from the imposition of the equitable lien than she was as a mortgagor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2010
• Published 06/03/2010

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and SMITH and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel