A federal appeals court reversed a Fort Lauderdale bankruptcy judge who allowed notable trustee Kenneth Welt to exceed his authority in a different role.

As the assignee for Nica Holdings Inc., Welt was responsible for liquidating the assets of a failed fish farm in Nicaragua. He was operating under an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or ABCs, a state court mechanism that’s considered more efficient and cheaper than federal bankruptcy proceedings.

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