In re Harris

*387DECISION AND ORDER

ROSS W. KRUMM, Bankruptcy Judge.

There are two matters before the court in this chapter 7 case. The first is the motion for relief from the automatic stay filed by East Carolina Farm Credit, ACA, (ECFC) on November 5, 1991. ECFC seeks to lift the stay so that it may obtain a state court determination of its lien rights in surplus foreclosure proceeds held by the Clerk of Superior Court of Pasquotank County. The second is the trustee’s motion to avoid ECFC’s judicial lien for impairing the debtor’s exemptions, filed on November 19, 1991. A hearing was held in Wilson, North…