Legal Opinion
Perry v. Dearing (In Re Perry)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2003No. 02-50448PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
This factually complex bankruptcy case asks us to determine whether a debtor is entitled to exempt from claims of creditors approximately 85 acres of rural property upon which he lives and operates a mobile home park, by claiming it as his rural homestead.
I. Background
In 1980, Robert Perry, and his wife Estella, 1 purchased an approximately 26-acre tract of land six miles outside of Del Rio, Texas. The Perrys operate a mobile home and RV park on the property, and have lived behind the park’s office and convenience store on a 1.34 acre plot within the 26-acre tract…
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