In Re Salander

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• explaining that the Trustee settled, but did not abandon, the Debtor’s forgery claim and later abandoned the Debtor’s real property—which was no longer subject to the Debtor’s forgery claim because of the earlier Settlement Agreement
• discussing a trustee’s ability to abandon assets after realizing their benefits
• retroactive effect of abandonment of real property to petition date did not undo a post-petition release, pursuant to a court-approved settlement, of claims relating to the real property
• “The automatic stay is intended to ‘allow the bankruptcy court to centralize all disputes concerning property of the debtor’s estate so that reorganization can proceed efficiently, unimpeded by uncoordinated proceedings in other arenas.’ ”
• “When a bankruptcy petition is filed” all legal or equitable interests of the debtor become property of the estate, “includ[ing] all causes of action that the debtor had a right to bring at the time the bankruptcy was filed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).