In Re Coplan

MEMORANDUM OPINION AS TO CONTESTED MATTERS INITIATED BY OBJECTIONS TO DEBTORS’ CLAIMS OF EXEMPTIONS

C. TIMOTHY CORCORAN, III, Bankruptcy Judge.

These contested matters test the limits of what some euphemistically call “pre-bankruptcy planning” by new Floridians who seek to benefit from Florida’s nationally recognized liberal exemption laws. In this ease, the debtors incurred substantial indebtedness in their home state of Wisconsin, moved to Florida, converted their nonexempt assets into property that is exempt under Florida law, and then filed a Chapter 7 petition here. They thus .seek to…