In re Hollingshead

OPINION AND ORDER ON TRUSTEE’S OBJECTION TO DEBTORS’ CLAIM OF EXEMPTION

BARBARA J. SELLERS, Bankruptcy Judge.

This matter came on for hearing April 18, 1997, on the objection of Thomas McK. Hazlett, the chapter 7 trustee, to the debtors’ claim of exemption in the aggregate amount of $20,000 in them residence. The debtors seek to utilize the exemptions set forth in both Ohio Revised Code § 2329.66(A)(1)(a) and (A)(1)(b). The trustee contends that these provisions may not be combined, and that the total homestead exemption which the debtors may claim is, therefore, $10,000.

This Court has…