Legal Opinion
In Re Duggan
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Texas
Decided June 24, 1980No. 19-40847PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BILL H. BRISTER, Bankruptcy Judge.
In a significant departure from former law the Bankruptcy Code permits an individual debtor a choice between alternative exemption systems. The debtor may choose the exemptions provided by the Uniform Bankruptcy Exemption, 11 U.S.C. § 522, or he may elect the exemptions to which he is entitled under applicable nonbankruptcy federal and state laws. This Memorandum concerns a situation where the debtor initially filed for exemptions under nonbank-ruptcy law and thereafter attempted to renounce those exemptions and claim under Section 522.
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2Cited by17 opinions
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- Christopher J. Redmond v. Lamonte Russell Tuttle and Ruth Ella TuttleCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1983
- Matter of EldridgeUnited States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · 1981
- In Re BrewerUnited States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1982
- In Re McQueenUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont · 1982
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