{"id":4329,"date":"2020-03-14T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T11:37:00","slug":"avoidance-proceedings-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/avoidance-proceedings-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoidance Proceedings: Common Provisions in Insolvency Proceedings for Individual and Juridical Debtors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Insolvency proceedings may refer to voluntary or involuntary proceedings for <strong>individual debtors<\/strong> (see Voluntary Liquidation Insolvency proceedings may refer to voluntary or involuntary proceedings for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Individual-Debtor\">individual debtors<\/a>(see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/voluntary-liquidation-for-individual-debtors-options-for-debtors-in-financial-distress\/\">Voluntary liquidation<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/involuntary-liquidation-for-individual-debtors-options-for-debtors-in-financial-distress\/\">Involuntary liquidation<\/a>) or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Juridical-Debtor\">juridical entities<\/a>&nbsp;(see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/liquidation-of-insolvent-juridical-debtors-under-the-financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-of-2010\/\">Liquidation proceedings<\/a>). The provisions on Liquidation Order are common in all these proceedings, as provided under&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-of-2010-republic-act-no-10142-full-text\/\">Republic Act No. 10142<\/a>, also known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-of-2010-republic-act-no-10142-full-text\/\">Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act (FRIA) of 2010<\/a>\u201c, and fleshed out in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/financial-liquidation-and-suspension-of-payments-rules-of-procedure-for-insolvent-debtors-2015-full-text\/\">FLSP Rules<\/a>. For purposes of these common provisions, the term \u201cdebtor\u201d includes individual debtors and other juridical debtors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Avoidance-Proceedings-Common-Provisions-in-Insolvency-Proceedings-under-the-FRIA-Philippines.png\" alt=\"Avoidance Proceedings - Common Provisions in Insolvency Proceedings under the FRIA Philippines\" class=\"wp-image-8262\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Other Common Provisions:<br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidation-order-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">The Liquidation Order<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidator-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">The Liquidator<\/a><\/td><td>* <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/determination-of-claims-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">Determination of Claims<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidation-plan-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">The Liquidation Plan<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/secured-creditors-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">Secured creditors<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ACTIONS FOR RESCISSION OR NULLITY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) The <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidator-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">liquidator<\/a> or, with his conformity, a creditor, may initiate and prosecute any action to rescind, or declare null and void, any transaction described in the immediately preceding paragraph. If the liquidator does not consent to the filing or prosecution of such action, any <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Creditor\">creditor<\/a> may seek leave of the court to commence and prosecute said action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court shall have 5 working days to act on the motion for leave to commence or prosecute an action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) &nbsp;If leave of court is granted under subsection (a) hereof, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidator-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">liquidator<\/a> shall assign and transfer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Creditor\">creditor<\/a> all rights, title and interest in the chose in action or subject matter of the proceeding, including any document in support thereof.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) &nbsp;Any benefit derived from a proceeding taken pursuant to subsection (a) hereof shall belong exclusively to the creditor instituting the proceeding to the extent of his claim and the costs, and the surplus, if any, shall belong to the estate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) &nbsp;Where, before an order is made under subsection (a) hereof, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidator-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">liquidator<\/a> signifies to the court his readiness to institute the proceeding for the benefit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Creditor\">creditors<\/a>, the order shall fix the time within which he shall do so and, in that case the benefit derived from the proceedings, if instituted within the time limits so fixed, shall belong to the estate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, the liquidator shall make provisions for any action for rescission or nullity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidation-plan-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">Liquidation Plan<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RESCISSION OR NULLITY OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Any transaction occurring prior to the issuance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/the-liquidation-order-common-provisions-in-insolvency-proceedings-for-individual-and-juridical-debtors\/\">Liquidation Order<\/a> or, in the case of conversion of <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/court-supervised-rehabilitation-proceedings-under-the-financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-of-2010\/\">rehabilitation proceedings<\/a> to liquidation proceedings, prior to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Commencement-Date\">commencement date<\/a>, entered into by the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Debtor\">debtor<\/a> or involving its <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Asset\">assets<\/a>, may be rescinded or declared null and void on the ground that the same was executed with intent to defraud a <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/glossary-for-the-revised-corporation-code\/#Creditor\">creditor<\/a> or creditors or constitutes an undue preference of creditors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insolvency proceedings may refer to voluntary or involuntary proceedings for individual debtors (see Voluntary Liquidation Insolvency proceedings may refer to voluntary or involuntary proceedings for&nbsp;individual debtors(see&nbsp;Voluntary liquidation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Involuntary liquidation) or&nbsp;juridical entities&nbsp;(see&nbsp;Liquidation proceedings). The provisions on Liquidation Order are common in all these proceedings, as provided under&nbsp;Republic Act No. 10142, also known as the \u201cFinancial Rehabilitation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[1075,534,535,1052,1051,1057,537,1070,536,1053],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-investments-law","category-special-projects","tag-avoidance-proceedings","tag-business","tag-corporate-rehabilitation","tag-financial-rehabilitation","tag-financial-rehabilitation-and-insolvency-act-fria-of-2010","tag-financial-restructuring","tag-insolvency","tag-insolvency-proceedings","tag-rehabilitation","tag-republic-act-no-10142"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8263,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/8263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}