Milligan v. Trautman’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. “Exempting all money traceable to a [whole-life insurance policy, exempt under section 1108.51 of the Texas Insurance Code] would allow people to use such policies merely to avoid creditors. People could place their money in a whole-life policy .... Sometime later — presumably even after only a few days — they could withdraw some of the money, or even all of it, forever shielding the money from creditors. That can’t be the law. Less insidiously, someone desiring to have a whole-life policy actually for insurance reasons nonetheless could put her extra money into the policy simply to shield it from creditors. That also can’t be the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Soza v. Hill · In re Wyly