Bledsoe

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

In the Matter of JENNIFER JAN 

BLEDSOE,

Debtor. No. 07-35567

MICHAEL B. BATLAN, Trustee,  D.C. No.

CV-07-06062-HO

Plaintiff-Appellant,

OPINION

v.

RYAN CURTIS BLEDSOE,

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Michael R. Hogan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 9, 2008—Portland, Oregon

Filed June 25, 2009

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Susan P. Graber, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge O’Scannlain

7935 7938 IN THE MATTER OF BLEDSOE

COUNSEL

Peter C. McKittrick and Christopher L. Parnell, Farleigh Witt, Portland, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellant.

David B. Mills, Hammons & Mills, Eugene, Oregon, for the defendant-appellee.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

We must decide under what circumstances a federal bank- ruptcy court may avoid a transfer made pursuant to a state- court judgment dissolving the marriage of the debtor. We hold that, under Oregon law, a party who challenges a dissolution judgment must…