A Buffalo woman who used a divorce settlement to buy a condominium from her son-in-law— then filed bankruptcy allegedly to avoid paying her divorce lawyer—can use a homestead exemption to shield her assets, a Buffalo bankruptcy judge has held in a case of first impression.
Western District Judge Michael Kaplan rebuffed HoganWillig’s allegations that its former client tried concealing assets to skirt a nearly $93,000 legal bill, noting that as the client’s former divorce counsel, the firm “knew every penny of her financial affairs.”
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