Lewandowski v. K. Jin Lim

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

AVERN COHN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This is an appeal in a Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcy case. The debtors/appellants are a married couple, Dennis and Sharon Lewandowski. The Lewandowskis filed a schedule of real property assets with the Bankruptcy Court that listed an undeveloped ten-acre parcel of land in Hayes Township, Clare County, Michigan, with an estimated value of $7,500. On their schedule of exemptions, the Lewan-dowskis listed the Hayes Township property as exempted at a value of $7,500 pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(d)(5). The trustee did not object to the…