Bankr. No.:
00-10159
Chapter:
13
Date of Decision:
January 31, 2001
Issue:
Whether Debtor may declare exempt as his homestead a house in which he had not continually lived for the past several years, but had rented to others, and in which he was living on the petition date, but which he soon thereafter left to take employment elsewhere?
Ruling:
Debtor was permitted to claim the house as his homestead. He lived there on the petition date and he had not done anything on that date that was inconsistent with that homestead claim. His new job and plans to move were not controlling.
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