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· 9/30/1988

In Re Reak

Citations

  • 92 B.R. 804
  • 19 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d 1368
  • 1988 Bankr. LEXIS 1806
  • 18 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 625
  • 1988 WL 116842

How courts have described this case

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  • describing the but-for test as a “common thread” in analogous bankruptcy decisions and holding that the debt used to acquire farmland was “inescapably interwoven with farming operations” and “but for [that debt], there would be no farm” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • “[B]ut for the land acquired by the debtor [through the debt at issue], there would be no farm.... ” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • state court has concurrent jurisdiction with bankruptcy court to decide whether divorce judgment awarded maintenance or property distribution

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Judges: James E. Shapiro

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