Yerrington v. Yerrington (In Re Yerrington)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Bankruptcy Judge:
The state divorce court dissolved a marriage relation giving the marital home to the husband and a judicial lien against the home to the wife. The husband filed for bankruptcy, and the bankruptcy court avoided the wife’s judicial lien. The wife appeals.
BACKGROUND
The Yerringtons, Seth and Luba, were married in 1977. Thereafter they built a residence on unimproved land already owned by Seth in Homer, Alaska (“the Homer residence,” or “the Property”). Title was held by Seth.
Seth and Luba were divorced in 1990. A final decree was not entered until August 23, 1990, after…
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