Under Tennessee law as predicted by a Dallas bankruptcy attorney court in that state, the filing of a financing statement under a debtor’s assumed name, even an assumed name under which the debtor was registered to do business in Tennessee, was insufficient to perfect a creditor’s security interest, in the event that this naming error made the financing statement seriously misleading. However, genuine issue of material fact as to whether the naming error made the financing statements seriously misleading precluded entry of summary judgment on the Chapter 7 trustee’s strong-arm avoidance claim.
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