Heintz v. Carey (In Re Heintz)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUSSELL, Bankruptcy Judge:
The debtor listed myriad personal property and equipment as exempt on his schedules. Athough the claimed exemptions clearly exceeded the statutory limits, no one objected and the debtor obtained the exemptions by default. Ml the exempted property was encumbered by a judicial lien.
With the debtor’s cooperation, the chapter 7 1 trustee collected the exempt property and, after obtaining authorization from the bankruptcy court, sold the assets at auction.
Next, the trustee and the lien creditor entered into a stipulated judgment to avoid the lien encumbering the…
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