Tsurukawa v. Nikon Precision, Inc. (In Re Tsurukawa)

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• holding that “in order to impute fraud to a spouse, there must be a partnership or other agency relationship.”
• “In order to impute fraud to a spouse, there must be a ‘partnership or other agency relationship.’ ”
• in § 523(a)(2)(A) action, fraud of one spouse may be imputed to other spouse under agency principles when evidence shows they are also business partners
• partnership relationship found where wife assumed active role in husband’s business, beyond merely holding a community property interest in, and performing minor services for, the business
• “In a § 523(a)(2)(A) action, one spouse’s fraud may be imputed to the other spouse under agency principles when, as in this case, they are also business partners.”
• “[A] marital union alone, without a finding of a partnership or other agency relationship between spouses, cannot serve as a basis for imputing fraud from one spouse to the other.” (internal quotations marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).