In Re Sartain

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FRANK W. KOGER, Bankruptcy Judge.

This Chapter 7 bankruptcy hearing arises over a simple appearing but rather complex issue as to whether two debtors who are husband and wife can both claim simultaneously the head of family exemption. The facts are quite simple. Debtors filed their voluntary petition in Chapter 7 on January 21, 1986, filed their schedules (including exemptions) on February 21, 1986, had an otherwise uneventful § 341 meeting on April 11, 1986, and then received the Trustee’s objections to the claimed exemptions on April 14, 1986. The Trustee’s…