Berge v. Fredericks

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• recognizing that the party asserting BFP status has the burden of establishing that status
• emphasizing that a 27 subsequent purchaser is not a good faith purchaser without notice when they possess 28 facts that would inspire a reasonable person to make further inquiry
• explaining that although marriage may constitute valuable consideration for the transfer of property, when the marriage is consummated prior to the agreement to transfer property, the marriage is not valuable consideration
• For marriage to constitute consideration for purposes of recording act it “must be bargained for and exchanged in return for that received”
• \The question whether [a putative bona fide purchaser] has made due inquiry is one of fact . . .\
• purchase must be in good faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).