In Re Thompson

MEMORANDUM OPINION 1

ROBERT D. BERGER, Bankruptcy Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee’s Objection to Debtors’ Claims for Exemption (Doc. # 13) of equipment necessary to raise game birds as tools of the trade. An evidentiary hearing was held before this Court at which debtor Merri Beth Thompson testified. At the hearing, the Chapter 13 Trustee withdrew his objection to the debtors’ homestead exemption. The Court issued its preliminary ruling from the bench regarding the claimed tools-of-trade exemption and sets out its detailed findings of fact and…