11 USC § 1523 - Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors

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identifier: "/us/usc/t11/s1523"
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title: "11 USC § 1523 - Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors"
title_number: 11
title_name: "BANKRUPTCY"
section_number: "1523"
section_name: "Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors"
chapter_number: 15
chapter_name: "ANCILLARY AND OTHER CROSS-BORDER CASES"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "RECOGNITION OF A FOREIGN PROCEEDING AND RELIEF"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 142.)"
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# § 1523. Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors

**(a)** Upon recognition of a foreign proceeding, the foreign representative has standing in a case concerning the debtor pending under another chapter of this title to initiate actions under sections 522, 544, 545, 547, 548, 550, 553, and 724(a).

**(b)** When a foreign proceeding is a foreign nonmain proceeding, the court must be satisfied that an action under subsection (a) relates to assets that, under United States law, should be administered in the foreign nonmain proceeding.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 142.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after , and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such effective date, except as otherwise provided, see , set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under .