In re Bifulci’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The statute obviously contemplates that in order for the proceeds to be exempt from claims of creditors of the wife a situation must exist where the wife on her own initiative takes out insurance upon her husband, making the application for the policy and receiving the policy. This is quite different from a situation where the husband, even at the instigation of his wife, takes out a policy of insurance, signs the application and receives the policy and thereafter the proceeds are paid to the wife as the beneficiary at his death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Rundlett

2. ““In a proceeeding to review a determination of the Referee the Court should not set aside the findings of fact of the Referee, who saw the witnesses and heard the testimony, unless the findings of fact are clearly erroneous. General Order 47, 11 U.S.C.A., following § 53; 2 Collier on Bankruptcy, par. 39.28.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Moyer