In the Matter Of: Jeani Maloy Hill, Debtor. Edmond J. Zielinski, Interim Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Jeani Maloy Hill v. Jeani Maloy Hill

The bankruptcy trustee, substitute Appellant on behalf of the FDIC as receiver for Metropolitan National Bank, formerly Sherry Lane National Bank (Sherry Lane), appeals the judgment of the district court affirming the bankruptcy court’s allowance of a 200 acre rural homestead to Debtor, Jeani Maloy Hill, a single grandmother in whose rural Texas home resides her divorced and remarried daughter and minor granddaughter. The principal thrust of Appellant’s allegations of error is that Hill, as an unmarried adult, is not entitled to a rural homestead in excess of 100 acres. In particular, Sherry…