preferential debt payment

preferential debt payment
preferential debt payment
A debt payment made to a creditor in the 90-day period before a debtor files bankruptcy (or within one year if the creditor was an insider) that gives the creditor more than the creditor would receive in the debtor's chapter 7 case. (BankruptcyAction.com)

United Glossary of Bankruptcy Terms 2012.


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