Morris v. Kasparek (In Re Kasparek)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a duty of inquiry was not triggered as to a lessee in possession where the lessee’s right derived from a lease with a joint tenant
• holding that even if the non-debtor/joint tenant owned the entire equitable interest in the property at issue, the trustee stood in the shoes of a hypothetical bona fide purchaser such that the plain terms of the deed stating that debtor was a joint tenant controlled
• holding Kansas law required unequal interests to be noted on the deed
• rejecting application of rebuttable presumption, and instead holding that “a recorded deed that is unambiguous on its face establishes record ownership”
• “As the party contesting record title and asserting full equitable title to the Property, [the non-debtor] had the burden of proving the validity and extent of his equitable interest.”

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