IN RE ALVAREZ

No. 12-1156.

733 F.3d 136 (2013)

In re Jose Alfredo Pineda ALVAREZ, Debtor. Jose Alfredo Alvarez; Meyber L. Alvarez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HSBC Bank USA, National Association, Defendant-Appellee, and Nancy Spencer Grigsby, Trustee. Lartease Martrell Tiffith, Court-Assigned Amicus Counsel.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: October 23, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Douglas Burns , Burns Law Firm, LLC, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellants.

Lartease Martrell Tiffith , O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., as Court-Assigned Amicus Counsel.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KEENAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge DAVIS joined.


BARBARA MILANO KEENAN, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we consider a district court's judgment upholding a bankruptcy court's refusal to "strip off" a "valueless lien" against certain real property that a debtor owned with his non-debtor spouse as tenants by the entireties.1 On appeal, the debtor and his spouse contend that the bankruptcy court erred in refusing to strip off the lien on the ground that the spouse's property interest was not...

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