BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we decide whether the spousal maintenance payments paid to debtor Darlene Jill Wise by her ex-husband within 180 days after the filing of her Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition are property of the bankruptcy estate under 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(5)(B) and therefore must be turned over to the Chapter 7 Trustee, M. Stephen Peters. Both the bankruptcy court and the district court held these post-petition maintenance payments were...
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