In Re Melito

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION REGARDING HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION

ROBERT SOMMA, Bankruptcy Judge.

Before the Court are two objections to the Debtors’ claim of a Massachusetts homestead exemption. The Debtors oppose the objections. At issue is whether the Debtors are entitled to the homestead exemption even though, when they commenced this bankruptcy case and because they were then expecting to sell the property, they neither occupied nor intended to occupy as their principal residence the property that is the subject of the exemption claim. For the reasons set forth below, the Court allows the Debtors’…