After attorney Paul Titus broke a building lease when his old firm, Titus & McConomy, dissolved, the landlord went after him for millions of dollars in unpaid rent by gunning for his wages from his new firm, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis.

The landlord’s claim persisted after Titus’ bankruptcy, and on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that Titus and his wife are liable for fraudulent transfer under the Pennsylvania Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act for depositing his wages from Schnader in a joint bank account, effectively obscuring whose money was whose.