In Re Scott

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON WATERS’S MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM STAY [Docket No. 18]

JACK B. SCHMETTERER, Bankruptcy Judge.

Alfonso Waters has moved for relief from the automatic stay in Tangela Scott’s Chapter 13 bankruptcy case in order to proceed with a tax deed proceeding in state court. For reasons discussed below, Waters’s motion will be granted.

UNDISPUTED BACKGROUND AND FACTS

Scott owns real property at 3421 West Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois, where her mother operates a car wash business. Scott did not pay the 2006 general real estate taxes on the property, so on August 15, 2008, her…