Tully v. Taxel (In Re Tully)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to allow real estate agents to file bankruptcy petitions shortly before escrow closings and then claim their commissions as post-petition earnings would circumvent the purpose of the Code
• finding debt- or’s commissions from sales pending in escrow were earned prepetition even though the commission agreement provided for payment only upon completion of escrow
• where commission was earned when broker located ready, willing, and able buyer, commission was pre-petition earning even though closing took place post-petition
• real estate commissions received postpetition by debtor were property of the estate where “all the acts of the debtor necessary to earn [them] are rooted in. the pre-bankruptcy past”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).