In Re O'Donnell

OPINION

EMIL F. GOLDHABER, Chief Judge:

The issue before us is whether an individual exercising an adequate power of attorney, executed by a debtor, may appear in the debtor’s stead at the debtor’s § 341 meeting. We conclude that, under the circumstances of this case, she may not and, accordingly, we will grant a creditor’s motion to dismiss the case.

The facts of this case are as follows: 1 In July of 1983, Renee O’Donnell (“the debt- or”), executed a power of attorney which authorized her sister, Elizabeth Campion (“the attorney in fact”), to institute bankruptcy proceedings in the debtor’s…