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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Africk denies requests by investors, developers, and other indemnitors to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction claims for collateral by an insurance bonding company, arising from a general contractor’s default on two state bridge construction contracts. One Louisiana-based indemnitor argued unpersuasively that a family court at Baton Rouge has “exclusive jurisdiction” over the insurer’s intervention to block a separation of community property by the business owner and his wife — after 20 years of marriage — as an attempt to defraud the insurer of its rights under the bridge-building indemnity agreement. The insurer’s request for a preliminary injunction does not ask the federal court to determine whether the former couple’s partition of assets in family court constitutes bad faith or fraud. Rather, the insurer seeks a judgment for collateral related to the $18.5 million dispute over the bridge-building indemnity agreement signed by the husband.