Meadows v. Household Retail Services, Inc. (In Re Griffin)

ORDER

W. HOMER DRAKE, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on the identical legal issue raised in two separate proceedings in this Court. The first proceeding is In re Freddie Lee Griffin. In that case the debtor filed a motion to avoid a lien on household goods to the extent that such lien impaired an exemption to which the debtor would otherwise be entitled, see 11 U.S.C. § 522(f). The second proceeding is Meadows v. Household Retail Services, Inc. (In re Meadows). In that proceeding the debtor filed a complaint to avoid a lien on household goods to the extent that lien…