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In a troubled business climate, a scenario all too often occurs wherein a once steady and reliable customer becomes delinquent in payment and eventually files for bankruptcy protection. In this common situation, your client's good customer becomes a debtor and your client becomes one of many creditors jockeying to recover a small portion of its investment. To make matters worse, your client receives a letter from the debtor or court appointed trustee demanding repayment of a pre-petition preferential payment pursuant to section 547(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (the Code).
Whenever a creditor receives a benefit from a debtor shortly before the debtor files for bankruptcy, whether the payment of money or the granting of additional security, a preferential transfer may occur. Significantly, the bankruptcy law entitles a debtor's estate to recover preferential transfers, including payments on account of antecedent debts made during the 90-day period prior to the bankruptcy petition. In other words, section 547(b) of the Code permits a trustee to avoid pre-bankruptcy transfers as “preferences.” In order for a preferential transfer to exist, a trustee of a debtor's estate must establish seven elements: 1) a transfer, 2) of an interest of the debtor in property, 3) to or for the benefit of a creditor, 4) for or on account of an antecedent debt, 5) made while the debtor was insolvent, 6) made within 90 days before bankruptcy, 7) the effect of which is to give the creditor more than it would receive in the bankruptcy proceeding. Unless the trustee proves each and every element, a transfer is not avoidable as a preference under 547(b). Conversely, a trustee's establishment of all of the elements of a preferential transfer by a preponderance of the evidence, results in the recoverability of the payment for the benefit of the bankruptcy estate.
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