In Re Kellar

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO AVOID JUDICIAL LIEN

MARY D. SCOTT, Bankruptcy Judge.

THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon the debtors’ Motion to Avoid Judicial Lien on Exempt Property Under Section 522(f), filed on August 5, 1996, to which the creditor Purina Mills, Inc. (“Purina”) responded. The debtors seek to avoid the judicial lien of Purina on the grounds that the lien impairs their homestead exemption. Purina argues that since, under Arkansas law, the lien does not attach to the homestead, there is no impairment of the exemption.

The parties stipulated that the debtors properly claim a homestead…