{"id":378,"date":"2018-12-05T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=378"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:33","slug":"tenancy-by-the-entirety-interests-can-be-sold-to-satisfy-debts-of-one-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/12\/05\/tenancy-by-the-entirety-interests-can-be-sold-to-satisfy-debts-of-one-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenancy by the entirety interests can be sold to satisfy debts of one spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bankruptcy court in Massachusetts has ruled that state tenancy by the entirety law is preempted by\u00a0\u00a0the Bankruptcy Code, \u00a7363(h)\u2013(j), interpreting federal law to authorize the forced sale of tenancy by the entirety property over the objections of the non-debtor spouse to satisfy the debts of the debtor spouse.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.bap1.uscourts.gov\/bap.pdf.opinions\/14-013P.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Desmond v. Green<\/a>, 2018 Bankr. LEXIS 3136 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/concurrent-or-common-ownership\/\" rel=\"tag\">Concurrent or Common Ownership<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/marital-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marital Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bankruptcy court in Massachusetts has ruled that state tenancy by the entirety law is preempted by\u00a0\u00a0the Bankruptcy Code, \u00a7363(h)\u2013(j), interpreting federal law to authorize the forced sale of tenancy by the entirety property over the objections of the non-debtor spouse to satisfy the debts of the debtor spouse.\u00a0Desmond v. Green, 2018 Bankr. LEXIS 3136 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concurrent-or-common-ownership","category-marital-property"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}