United States v. Morales
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
36 F. Supp. 3d 1276 (2014)
As part of a 1990 divorce, John Palfrey conveyed real property to 'Linda M. Palfrey'; after she later married Luis Morales (defendant), a 2007 deed conveyed the same property from 'Linda M. (Palfrey) Morales' to 'Linda M. Morales and Luis Enrique Morales,' signed by 'Linda Marie Morales.' After Luis Morales's later felony convictions, the government obtained a court order awarding it half the property's ownership interest; Linda Morales opposed, arguing she never intended to convey any interest to Luis and that the discrepancies among the various names used across the 1990 and 2007 deeds invalidated the 2007 conveyance despite her admission that all the names referred to the same person.
Whether a named grantee is necessarily precluded from using a different name, as grantor, to convey the property to another individual.