On Feb. 25, The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.,[1] a case involving a dispute between (1) the trustee in bankruptcy of a defunct bank holding company, and (2) the FDIC, as receiver for the bank holding company’s failed bank subsidiary, over the ownership of a federal income tax refund that was payable by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to the bank holding company as the parent of a consolidated tax filing group.
On December 6, 2019, the governor of New York signed into law the New York Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (“NYUVTA”). N.Y. DEBT. & CRED. §§ 270-281. Until the occurrence of that event, New York had adhered for 95 years to the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (“NYUFCA”) and had refrained from replacing it with the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (“UFTA”), which was adopted by virtually all of the other states as a replacement of the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (“UFCA”).