4th District Court of Appeal, Collections & Creditor Rights, Family Law, Litigation
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May 20, 2026
The Fourth District held that a judgment creditor cannot use the spousal exception to levy a third party’s bank accounts without a court order when the marriage supporting the levy was bigamous and void from its inception.
4th District Court of Appeal, Civil Procedure, Collections & Creditor Rights, Litigation
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May 12, 2026
California’s Fourth District holds that check memo-line annotations labeling payments as “loan payment” are not sufficient written acknowledgments to revive a debt already barred by the statute of limitations.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Collections & Creditor Rights, Litigation
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May 7, 2026
The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, held that a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee who fails to preserve estate assets is not shielded by quasi-judicial immunity because property-management duties are administrative, not adjudicative.
2nd District Court of Appeal, Civil Procedure, Collections & Creditor Rights, Litigation
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February 17, 2026
Second District holds California exemption law applies to collection actions in California courts regardless of where the judgment debtor lives, and that funds rolled over from a surrendered life insurance policy into IRAs are not categorically exempt from levy.
Appellate Division (Superior Court), Collections & Creditor Rights, Litigation
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February 3, 2026
Santa Clara Appellate Division reverses a debt-buyer's trial judgment, holding the trial court erred in admitting testimony from an undisclosed witness and account records that were not properly authenticated under the business-records hearsay exception.