Legal Opinion
In Re Brooks
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 22, 1983No. 18-12697PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION ON TRUSTEE’S MOTION TO REDUCE DEBTORS’ HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION TO $10,000.
HOWARD SCHWARTZBERG, Bankruptcy Judge.
The trustee in this joint Chapter 7 case filed pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 302 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, objects to the debtors’ doubling of the New York homestead exemption to the sum of $20,000 instead of limiting the exemption for real property occupied as a principal residence to the $10,000 value expressed in New York CPLR § 5206.
The debtors are a husband and wife who filed a joint petition in bankruptcy with this court on February 18, 1983. The trustee served…
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- First National Bank of Mobile v. Alton A. NorrisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
- Perry v. ZarconeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980
- In Re DavisDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1971
- Perry v. ZarconeNew York Supreme Court · 1979
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3Cited by2 opinions
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