By Lawrence R. Ahern III, Brown & Ahern (Nashville, TN) Introduction In Ritzen Group, Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC (In re Jackson Masonry, LLC),1 the Sixth Circuit reviewed circuit authority on finality of orders for appellate purposes and affirmed the district court's dismissal of an appeal from an order denying stay relief. The Court of Appeals said that, under 28...
From the Editor – Property of Estate and Exemptions
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Debtors not barred from claiming further exemption. The court had approved a settlement under the Chapter 7 debtors’ uninsured motorist coverage, including $15,000 exemption under a state exemption for personal bodily injury. Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-2-111-(2)(B). The trustee did not object to that exemption, and the debtors then amended Schedule C to claim further exemption in the settlement proceeds, under a Tennessee statute for general personal property exemption and under Tennessee’s exemption for benefits paid under contracts of accident, health or disability insurance . . .
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