Legal Opinion
East Cambridge Savings Bank v. Silveira (In Re Silveira)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 1998No. 97-1917PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
This bankruptcy appeal requires us to decide the extent to which a Chapter 7 debt- or may, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(f)(1) & (f)(2)(A), avoid the fixing of a judicial lien on the debtor’s property, when the market value of the property exceeds the sum of (1) all consensual (non-judicial) liens on the property and (2) the amount of the debtor’s exempt interest under 11 U.S.C. § 522(d). We hold that, in such a situation, section 522(f)(1) permits the avoidance of the targeted judicial lien only in part, not in its entirety. Because the district court concluded otherwise,…
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