Fraudulent transfers

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15A:14-10. Fraudulent transfers

a. Every transfer made and every obligation incurred by a corporation which is or will be thereby rendered insolvent, is fraudulent as to creditors without regard to its actual intent if the transfer is made or the obligation is incurred without a fair consideration.

b. Every transfer made without fair consideration, when the corporation making it is engaged or is about to engage in an activity or transaction for which the assets remaining in its hands after the transfer are unreasonably small, is fraudulent as to creditors and as to other persons who become creditors during the continuance of the business or transaction without regard to its actual intent.

c. Every transfer made and every obligation incurred without fair consideration when the corporation making the transfer or entering into the obligation intends to or believes that it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay as they mature, is fraudulent as to both present and future creditors.

d. Every transfer made and every obligation incurred by a corporation with actual intent, as distinguished from intent presumed in law, to hinder, or defraud either present or future creditors of the corporation, is fraudulent as to both present and future creditors.

e. Every transfer made and every obligation incurred by a corporation which is or will thereby be rendered insolvent, within 4 months prior to the commencement of a receivership action by or against the corporation, is fraudulent as to the then existing and future creditors: (1) if made or incurred in contemplation of the commencement of the action or in contemplation of liquidation of all or the greater portion of the corporation's property, with intent to use the consideration obtained for the transfer or obligation to enable any creditor of the corporation to obtain a greater percentage of a debt than some other creditor of the same class; and (2) if the transferee or obligee of the transfer or obligation, at the time of the transfer or obligation, knew or believed that the corporation intended to make that use of the consideration.

f. For the purposes of this section, a transfer shall be deemed to have been made at the time when it became so far perfected that no purchaser from the corporation could thereafter have acquired any rights in the property so transferred superior to the rights of the transferee therein, but, if the transfer is not so perfected prior to the commencement of the receivership action by or against the corporation, it shall be deemed to have been made immediately before the filing of the action.

L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:14-10, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.


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