Ramon A. Garcia and Bertha E. Garcia - Page 20

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                  A         I didn't have any knowledge or                            
                       understanding of that.  I was just relying                     
                       on the advice of my CPA.                                       

             Petitioner testified on cross-examination as follows:                    

                  Q         Did the notes state that you had to pay                   
                       -- that you had to make payments quarterly?                    
                  A         I don't recollect.                                        

             We also note that neither of the other trustees testified                
             at trial.  Unlike the TAM, in this case we have no basis                 
             to find that the parties to the loans, consisting of                     
             petitioner and the other two trustees, on the one hand,                  
             and petitioner as borrower, on the other hand, intended to               
             renew, renegotiate, modify, or extend the terms of the                   
             loans after 1986.                                                        
                  Petitioners also cite three State court cases for the               
             proposition that the plan's "failure to enforce its rights               
             over a three or four year period" constituted a "revision                
             or modification of the [notes]" under State law.  In                     
             effect, petitioners argue that State law controls our                    
             determination of whether the subject loans were renewed,                 
             renegotiated, modified, or extended after the effective                  











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