Piersol v. Northeast Kansas Production Credit Ass'n (In re Piersol)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAFFELS, District Judge.

This appeal from a decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas presents the question of whether non-contiguous parcels of farmland can be a homestead within the meaning of the Kansas Constitution, Article 15, Section 9, and K.S.A. 60-2301.

In a well-reasoned opinion, the bankruptcy court ruled that contiguity is a requirement of the Kansas law and therefore that a 150-acre parcel of non-contiguous farmland owned by appellants was not entitled to the homestead exemption. This court agrees.

Appellants, debtors in the…