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Wis. Stat. § 242.02

Insolvency

Known as the Uniform Voidable Transactions Law

The act spans §§ 242–242 (15 sections).

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Badger State Bank v. Taylor (2004)

Most recently applied in Sandra K. Shockley v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (October 2017)

1987 a. 192; 2023 a. 246.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) In this section:

(a) “Assets” do not include property that has been transferred, concealed or removed with intent to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or that has been transferred in a manner making the transfer voidable under this chapter.

(b) “Debts” do not include an obligation to the extent it is secured by a valid lien on property of the debtor not included as an asset.

(2) A debtor is insolvent if, at a fair valuation, the sum of the debtor’s debts is greater than the sum of the debtor’s assets.

(3) A debtor who is generally not paying the debtor’s debts as they become due other than as a result of a bona fide dispute is presumed to be insolvent. The presumption imposes on the party against which the presumption is directed the burden of proving that the nonexistence of insolvency is more probable than its existence.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.