Rochelle's Daily Wire

To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.

A deficiency judgment resulting from mortgage foreclosure is not ‘a judgment arising out of a mortgage foreclosure’ and can be avoided as a judgment lien.

‘Obtained by’ legal proceedings, a consent judgment is still a judgment lien that can be avoided if it impairs an exemption.

The Eighth Circuit had held that a debtor has an ‘inchoate’ property interest in avoidance actions before bankruptcy, but Judge Collins ruled that a lender can’t have a lien.

The Fifth Circuit answered one of the two questions being posed at this year’s Duberstein Moot Court Competition.

Now a circuit judge, a former bankruptcy judge makes quick work of a troublesome issue about property of the estate.

The district court characterized the agreement not as creating a trust but as a device designed to win priority over a prior, perfected security interest.

Although a UCC lien on ‘accounts’ would attach outside of bankruptcy to proceeds from the sale of real property, Section 552(b) cuts off attachment if the sale occurs after filing

Because Florida filing offices do not use ‘standard search logic,’ a financing statement must use the debtor’s precise, unabbreviated legal name.

Fifth Circuit says that Oklahoma protected that state’s oil and gas producers while Texas didn’t.