Estate Of Roger Lellock

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “although an underlying debt is discharged in bankruptcy, the lien created before bankruptcy against property to secure that debt survives.”
• holding that an insurance policy is property of the estate within 11 U.S.C. § 541 even though the policy has not matured, has no cash surrender value and is otherwise contingent
• permitting a secured creditor’s valid pre-petition lien to be discharged would be “clearly repugnant to bankruptcy policy”
• “[Vjalid hens that have not been disallowed or avoided survive the bankruptcy discharge of the underlying debt.”
• court applied § 506(d) as amended by the 1984 Act in post-amendment contested matter in a case commenced in 1983
• assignment of life insurance proceeds constituted lien that was not discharged in bankruptcy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).