Hazard v. Overhead Door Co. of Madison, Inc. (In Re Hazard)

ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Wisconsin denying appellants’ motion pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(f)(1) to avoid the judicial lien on their homestead property held by appellee. Section 522(f)(1) allows a debtor to avoid a judicial lien if the lien impairs an exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled but for the lien.

Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(b)(2), appellants elected to calculate their exemption under Wisconsin law. Wisconsin’s homestead exemption statute, Wis.Stat. § 815.20, provides that…