IN RE BRADLEY

Nos. 05-51626, 06-50808.

501 F.3d 421 (2007)

In the Matter of: Gary L. BRADLEY, Debtor. Gary L. Bradley, Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Ronald E. Ingalls, Trustee; Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Thomas Thompson, Trustee of and on Behalf of the Lazarus Exempt Trust, Appellee-Cross-Appellant. In the Matter of: Gary L. Bradley, Debtor. Ronald Ingalls, Appellant, v. Lazarus Investments LP; Castle Realty Management LLC; Thomas Thompson, in his capacity as Trustee of the Lazarus Exempt Trust, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 20, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond W. Battaglia, Douglas Wayne Sanders, Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate, San Antonio, TX, Jeffrey Thomas Cullinane, Richie & Gueringer, Austin, TX, for Bradley.

Michael Paul Massad, Jr., Jarrett Lee Hale (argued), Hunton & Williams, Dallas, TX, Frank N. Ikard, Jr., Mary E. Haught, Patrick Charles Hargadon, Bankston & Richardson, Austin, TX, for Ingalls.

Lynne Liberato (argued), Kent Geoffrey Rutter, Katharine D. David, Haynes & Boone, Houston, TX, Eric Jay Taube, Sarah J. Starnes, Hohmann, Taube & Summers, Austin, TX, for Thompson.

Before SMITH, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Our main concern in this bankruptcy appeal is whether the burdens and elements of proof were correctly applied in a bankruptcy trustee's action to trace and recover assets that a debtor "self-settled" into a spendthrift trust of which he is the beneficiary. The bankruptcy and district courts held that, although the debtor and his business associates used the trust in a scheme to defraud his creditors...

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