Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[W]hile federal law creates the bankruptcy estate, . . . state law, absent a countervailing federal interest, determines whether a given property falls within this federal framework.”
• other than limited statutory exceptions, property not owned at the time of the petition but only subsequently acquired by the debtor does not become property of the bankruptcy estate
• “[D]ebtors’ insurance policies clearly constitute ‘interests’ under § 541(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.”
• debtors’ homeowners insur- ance policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).