Palmquist v. Tafoya (In Re Palmquist)

ORDER ON DEBTOR’S MOTION TO AVOID LIENS

PATRICIA ANN CLARK, Bankruptcy Judge.

The debtor, Linda Jean Palmquist, filed a motion to avoid the defendants’ judgment liens pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(f). The debtor claims that said judgment liens impair an exemption to which the debtor would have been entitled under C.R.S. §§ 38-41-201, 202. A hearing was held on March 4, 1985.

The defendants obtained judgments against the debtor in 1980 and recorded liens against the debtor’s interest in her home soon thereafter. David Tafoya’s judgment was for $150,300 and Mary Tafo-ya’s was for $32,000. The debtor…