S & C Home Loans, Inc. v. Farr (In Re Farr)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MARLAR, Bankruptcy Judge.
INTRODUCTION
A judicial lienholder has challenged the bankruptcy court’s application of § 522(c) 1 to protect the debtor’s entire real property homestead, instead of just the $100,000 claimed allowance under the state’s exemption law. Finding no conflict, on these facts, between § 522(c) and California law, we hold that the court misapplied § 522(c) in invalidating the creditor’s lien in its entirety. We REVERSE.
FACTS
Debtor Mathew Farr (“Farr”), filed a voluntary chapter 7 petition on March 12, 1997. In his bankruptcy schedules, Farr listed a one-half joint…
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