8.5.1 Bankruptcy

A tax sale is voidable if it was made while a bankruptcy stay was in effect.1  However, because the redemptive period is peremptive,2  a bankruptcy proceeding filed after the tax sale will not suspend the redemptive period.3

  • 1Joshua Inv. Corp. v. Home Sales Consulting, Inc., 39,251-CA (La. App. 2 Cir. 1/19/05), 892 So. 2d 151; Bertini v. Britton, 93 CA 0779 (La. App. 1 Cir. 4/8/94), 635 So. 2d 712.
  • 2La. R.S. 47:2241.
  • 3In re Curley, 572 B.R. 622, 637 (Bankr. E.D. La. 2017) (“While the automatic stay prevents AP from taking steps to quiet title, it does not stay the redemptive period.”).

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