Schooley v. Schooley

(dissenting). — I. In my opinion, the fact that the statute gives exemption to no one but a “debtor,” does not decide this case. That none but debtors have an exemption is a limitation upon who may claim exemption, rather than a declaration that all debtors may claim it. I think that all accomplished by limiting exemption rights to “debtors,” is that, if an- alimony judgment is not a “debt,” there is no exemption as to such a judgment; and that using the word “debtor” does not settle whether such judgment is or is not a debt. If it is not a debt, then, as exemptions bar nothing but the…