{"id":306,"date":"2018-06-28T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/?p=306"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:37:51","slug":"suing-an-insolvent-debtor-can-you-recover-from-his-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2018\/suing-an-insolvent-debtor-can-you-recover-from-his-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Suing an Insolvent Debtor &#8211; Can You Recover from his Trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your debtor owes you a fortune, but when his estate is sequestrated there is nothing in his own name. However you find out that he is trustee of a wealthy family trust with lots of assets that you think are really his \u2013 can you recover from his trust?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is yes, you can, but only in certain circumstances, and only by choosing the right line of attack. A recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) case illustrates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>A Ponzi scheme, a suicide, and R11m worth of missing cattle<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>A former farmer and cattle dealer committed suicide, leaving debts of R35m and many local farmers and businessman defrauded in what had become a Ponzi scheme. The scheme involved \u201cinvestment contracts\u201d whereby farmers placed cattle on farms hired by the dealer for grazing and eventual division of their progeny.<\/li>\n<li>The dealer\u2019s deceased estate was sequestrated as insolvent.<\/li>\n<li>A major creditor (who had lost 1,501 head of cattle with an estimated value of R11m) thereupon applied to the High Court for the sequestration of a farm-owning family trust of which the insolvent had been one of the trustees. The creditor alleged that the trust was the insolvent\u2019s \u2018alter ego\u2019 &#8211; in other words, a sham or simulation in which the insolvent had conducted the trust\u2019s financial affairs \u201cas if it was his own money\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The High Court refused to sequestrate the trust, and the SCA agreed, holding that the creditor\u2019s claim was against the deceased estate, not against the trust itself. The creditor accordingly had no standing to sequestrate the trust, but in any case &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>If the creditor alleged that his cattle were held or had been misappropriated by the trust, he should have sued the trust for their return or for damages rather than apply for its sequestration.<\/li>\n<li>If the trust were indeed a sham, it couldn\u2019t be sequestrated (you can\u2019t sequestrate something that doesn\u2019t exist in law).<\/li>\n<li>If assets appearing to be those of the trust were actually the insolvent\u2019s assets, it wasn\u2019t the creditor who could recover them. It was only the trustees of the insolvent deceased estate who had standing and power to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What the creditor should have done, said the Court, was to prove his claim against the insolvent deceased estate and then insist on an enquiry into whether there was any claim by the estate against the trust for return of cattle or damages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Attacking a trust 101<\/h6>\n<p>If you decide to attack a trust directly, you can ask a court to declare that trust assets be treated as your debtor\u2019s personal assets. Per a 2014 High Court decision, you need to distinguish between two different lines of attack here. Either &#8211;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You can try to establish that the trust is a sham and doesn\u2019t actually exist; or<\/li>\n<li>If the trust isn\u2019t a sham and does exist, you can still ask a court to \u201cgo behind the trust form\u201d or to \u201cpierce its veneer\u201d and to disregard \u201cthe ordinary consequences of [the trust\u2019s] existence\u201d. The court could for example declare trust assets to be assets in the trustee\u2019s personal estate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Which line you should follow is a highly technical decision \u2013 ask your lawyer for specific advice.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style='font-size:12px'><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> The information provided herein should not be used or relied on as professional advice. No liability can be accepted for any errors or omissions nor for any loss or damage arising from reliance upon any information herein. Always contact your professional adviser for specific and detailed advice.<\/p>\n<p style='font-size: 12px;color: #ccc;text-align: right'>\u00a9 LawDotNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your debtor owes you a fortune, but when his estate is sequestrated there is nothing in his own name. However you find out that he is trustee of a wealthy family trust with lots of assets that you think are really his \u2013 can you recover from his trust? The answer is yes, you can, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101014,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debt-recovery","category-insolvency-liquidation-business-rescue","category-litigation","category-trusts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suing an Insolvent Debtor - Can You Recover from his Trust? &#8226; LawDotNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2018\/suing-an-insolvent-debtor-can-you-recover-from-his-trust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suing an Insolvent Debtor - Can You Recover from his Trust? &#8226; LawDotNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Your debtor owes you a fortune, but when his estate is sequestrated there is nothing in his own name. 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