In Re Dry

OPINION

MARY P. GORMAN, Bankruptcy Judge.

The issue before the Court is whether the Debtor may claim an exemption in life insurance proceeds payable to her upon the death of her live-in boyfriend.

The Debtor, Mary Ann Dry, filed a petition pursuant to Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code on April 17, 2006. On Schedule C — -Property Claimed As Exempt, the Debtor claimed as exempt property she described as “Claim for Life Insurance Proceeds from policy of deceased boyfriend. Metropolitan Life has filed an in-terpleader action in Federal Court in Champaign, IL since the decedent’s children contest the…