In Re Young

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CLIVE W. BARE, Bankruptcy Judge.

At issue is whether the Tennessee homestead exemption statute, Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-2-301 (1980), affords the debtor a homestead exemption in the debtor’s interest in property held as a tenant in common.

I

The debtor and her daughter own as tenants in common a house and lot at 336 Clinchfield Avenue, Erwin, Tennessee. When she filed her chapter 7 petition in bankruptcy on February 24, 1984, the debt- or had lived alone in the house for eleven years. She moved out of the house in late April or early May of 1984.

The debtor has asserted a…