Lovald v. Claussen (In Re Claussen)

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• holding that the ex-husband and debtor’s redistribution of equity in the marital home under an unrecorded, pre-petition divorce agreement and divorce decree is subordinate to a trustee’s hypothetical lien powers under § 544(a)(1)
• construing South Dakota law and finding, while it may have been enforceable between the debtor and her ex-husband, an unrecorded divorce decree was not effective against the Chapter 7 trustee in his capacity as a hypothetical judicial lienholder

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