Legal Opinion
Abdul-Rahim v. LaBarge (In Re Abdul-Rahim)
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 12, 2013No. 12-3448PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Abdullah and Stephanie Abdul-Rahim (“Debtors”) appeal the decision of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP), which affirmed the bankruptcy court’s ruling that the holding of In re Bern, 491 F.3d 811 (8th Cir.2007), compelled the conclusion that the Debtors’ unliquidated personal injury claim may not be exempted from their bankruptcy schedules. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Debtors filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition on August 3, 2011, and later, in an amended schedule, claimed as exempt an unliquidated personal injury claim, ostensibly pursuant to Missouri Revised Statute §…
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