Legal Opinion
Stumpf v. Roberts (In Re Roberts)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1998No. BAP 97-6092NEPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. HILL, Bankruptcy Judge.
The Chapter 7 trustee, James J. Stumpf (“trustee”), appeals the order of the bankruptcy court 1 allowing the debtors, Charles Ellis and Maria Ann Roberts (“the Roberts”), to claim a homestead exemption under Section 40-102 of the Nebraska Homestead Act (“Act”), -Nebraska Revised Statutes §§ 40-101 to 40-116. The trustee contends that because neither of the Roberts is a statutory “head of a family,”, they fail to qualify for -the exemption pursuant to Section 40-115, which the trustee contends preconditions qualification for the exemption. For the following…
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