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In re Evert L. Fredricks and Rhoda A. Fredricks

Bankr. No.: 
00-40484
Chapter: 
7
Date of Decision: 
September 27, 2000
Issue: 
Whether house in another town in which the debtors had not lived for several years could be declared their exempt homestead?
Ruling: 
The unoccupied house was deemed the debtors' homestead. They did not have another homestead, they lived in a different town due to employment, and they had a present intent to return to the house when one debtor retired and when they had sufficient funds to make it habitable again.
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