Legal Opinion
Matter of Sinnard
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Iowa
Decided September 30, 1988No. 19-00053PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
ROBERT D. MARTIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
Linda E. Sinnard, the debtor in this chapter 7 case, has brought a motion under section 522(f)(1) to avoid a lien on her homestead held by the Key City Bank & Trust Company (the “Bank”). After a hearing was held on the debtor’s motion on September 8, 1988, the matter was taken under advisement and the parties given leave to brief the issues.
The following facts are material and undisputed. On October 11, 1982, the debtor and John M. Walsh, then the debtor’s husband, granted a mortgage on the debtor’s homestead to the Bank as security for…
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