In Re Douglas G. Knapp and Gloria J. Knapp, Bankrupt. Red Carpet Homes of Johnstown, Inc. v. Stephen Gerling, Trustee in Bankruptcy

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), responding to the myriad of existing security devices, established a comprehensive statutory scheme for the creation and regulation of security interests. Yet, despite this simplification and clarification of the law, the answers,to relatively straightforward questions remain clouded by uncertainty. This case presents one such issue — the proper place to file a document perfecting a security interest in consumer goods, where the debtor changes his place of residence between the time of attachment and the time…