Ray J. Belisle v. Oliver Plunkett, Monica Plunkett, and Ralph C. Anzivino, Trustee

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• imposing a constructive trust where the debtor convinced several business partners to put up money for the purchase of a leasehold property and then purchased all of the property in his own name
• leasehold interest purchased by debtor in own name with funds of \bamboozled” partners can be brought into the bankruptcy estate notwithstanding \constructive trust” under local law
• “Under most states’ laws, however, the buyer in good faith of real property can obtain a position superior to that of the rightful owner if the owner neglected to record his interest in the filing system. Section 544(a)(3) gives the trustee the same sort of position.”

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