In Re Meyers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to create a valid trust under Ohio law, there must be an intention to create a trust, a description of the trust res and the beneficiary must be specific
• finding as estate property the debtor’s right to receive lottery winnings in installments over time
• “future lottery proceeds are property of the estate as the debt- or had a right to receive proceeds as of the commencement of that case.”
• assignment void given that under Ohio law, assignment of lottery prize not permitted absent court order
• lottery proceeds do not constitute an exemption under the Ohio exemption statutes
• Assignment of lottery prize void under Ohio law prohibiting assignment absent court order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Corzin v. Fordu (In Re Fordu)
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-07-07· cited 75×
• Booth v. Vaughan (In Re Booth)
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-03-16· cited 49×
• Church Joint Venture, L.P. v. Bedwell (In re Blasingame)
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-04-15· cited 16×
• In Re Neto
  D. New Jersey· 1997-11-24· cited 9×
• In Re Cook
  W.D. Michigan· 1992-12-22· cited 9×
• In Re Guikema
  S.D. Ohio· 2005-04-14· cited 6×
• In Re Myers
  N.D. Ohio· 1996-05-28