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· 2/3/1993

First Fidelity Bank v. Raymond McAteer Helen McAteer Debtors. Robert M. Wood, Trustee. First Fidelity Bank, N.A.

Citations

  • 985 F.2d 114
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 1666
  • 1993 WL 23782

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that when purchaser of insurance policy “as signs its proceeds elsewhere, the assignee or beneficiary owns the proceeds and the [debt- or’s] estate does not”
  • noting that although bankruptcy court can and does alter obligations of debtor, the Code does not have the same effect on the obligations of nondebtors
  • stating in a chapter 13 case that “[ojwnership of a life insurance policy, such as involved here, does not necessarily entail ownership of the proceeds of that policy?’

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Judges: Mansmann, Hutchinson, Bartle

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