United States Sixth Circuit

When determining whether a trust is a business or personal trust for purposes of bankruptcy, the controlling legal standard is the "primary purpose" test, which has no requirement for transferable certificates of ownership in the trust.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2002
• Published 09/13/2002

Judges

• Before SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harry Bernard O'Donnell, IV (argued and briefed), Louisville, KY, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Baxter Schilling (argued and briefed), Louisville, KY, for Appellee.