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In Brace v. Speier (In re Brace), 566 B.R. 13 (9th Cir. BAP 2017), the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (“BAP”) affirmed a ruling by the bankruptcy court holding that, where the avoidance of transfers of interests in real properties restored title to a married couple as joint tenants, California’s community property presumption (California Family Code § 760) prevailed over California’s record title presumption (California Evidence Code § 662). As a result, both the debtor’s and the non-debtor spouse’s interests in the recovered real properties were assets of the bankruptcy estate.
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The mortgage creditor cancelled the underlying debt when it filed a “cancellation of debt” form with the IRS and the debtors paid income taxes on the cancelled debt. In re Lukaszka, No. 17-242 (Bankr. N.D. Ia. Aug. 4, 2017).