If your assets are being seized, it’s (normally) because you are unable to pay whatever judgement was levied against you with cash. If your fairy godfather magically appears and puts up the money necessary so your assets won’t be seized, the judge isn’t going to care. All his job is is to ensure the plaintiffs are made as whole as possible. He will (generally) not care how your debt is paid or by whom. If the debt is paid, the debt is paid and you get to keep your stuff.
Heck, Elon musk could have swooped in himself, offered to buy infowars for 1.5 billion (which, let’s be real, wouldn’t even count as a rounding error to Musk) to satisfy the entire Sandy Hook judgement with the plans of just handing the whole thing right back to Jones for $1. And the families wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it. As far as the courts are concerned, the families were made whole. The families don’t really get to decide how they are made whole.
This isn’t the case.
If your assets are being seized, it’s (normally) because you are unable to pay whatever judgement was levied against you with cash. If your fairy godfather magically appears and puts up the money necessary so your assets won’t be seized, the judge isn’t going to care. All his job is is to ensure the plaintiffs are made as whole as possible. He will (generally) not care how your debt is paid or by whom. If the debt is paid, the debt is paid and you get to keep your stuff.
Heck, Elon musk could have swooped in himself, offered to buy infowars for 1.5 billion (which, let’s be real, wouldn’t even count as a rounding error to Musk) to satisfy the entire Sandy Hook judgement with the plans of just handing the whole thing right back to Jones for $1. And the families wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it. As far as the courts are concerned, the families were made whole. The families don’t really get to decide how they are made whole.