Terms Used In Michigan Laws 566.33

  • Asset: means property of a debtor. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Debt: means liability on a claim. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Debtor: means a person that is liable on a claim. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Disposition: means that term as defined in section 2 of the qualified dispositions in trust act, 2016 PA 330, MCL 700. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: means an individual, estate, partnership, association, trust, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  • Transfer: means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset. See Michigan Laws 566.31
  (1) Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied. Value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the promisor’s business to furnish support to the debtor or another person.
  (2) For the purposes of section 4(1)(b) and section 5, a person gives a reasonably equivalent value if the person acquires an interest of the debtor in an asset pursuant to a regularly conducted, noncollusive foreclosure sale or execution of a power of sale for the acquisition or disposition of the interest of the debtor upon default under a mortgage, deed of trust, or security agreement.
  (3) A transfer is made for present value if the exchange between the debtor and the transferee is intended by them to be contemporaneous and is in fact substantially contemporaneous.