Legal Opinion
Hagan v. Mickens
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided August 14, 2018No. CASE No. 1:17-cv-1013PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT J. JONKER, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
*596INTRODUCTION
The practical question in this bankruptcy appeal is how much of the $60,000 in the debtors' home equity is available to general unsecured creditors of either one of them. All parties agree that about $3,000 would be available if the debtors had proceeded from the outset as joint tenants. This is because the debtors' combined homestead exemptions would have covered all but about $3,000 of the equity. All parties also agree the debtors could lawfully have proceeded this way from the outset, and so the Court treats this scenario as…
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