Legal Opinion
Farrey v. Sanderfoot
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 23, 1991No. 90-350PublishedCited by 369 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In this case we consider whether § 522(f) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a debtor to avoid the fixing of a lien on a homestead, where the lien is granted to the debtor’s former spouse under a divorce decree that extinguishes all previous interests the parties had in the property, and in no event secures more than the value of the nondebtor spouse’s former interest. We hold that it does not.
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Petitioner Jeanne Farrey and respondent Gerald Sander-foot were married on August 12, 1966. The couple eventually built a home on 27 acres of land in Hortonville, Wisconsin, where they raised their three…
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