Carpenter v. Ries (In Re Carpenter)

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• holding that the Social Security Act “automatically and completely excludes social security proceeds from the bankruptcy estate”
• Concluding that 42 U.S.C. § 407 “must be read as an exclusion provision, which automatically and completely excludes social security proceeds from the bankruptcy estate, and not as an exemption provision which must be claimed by the debtor.”
• “[Section 407] operates as a complete bar to the forced inclusion of past and future social security proceeds in the bankruptcy estate.”
• exemption statute is unambiguous, and therefore courts have no need lor legislative history or implied exceptions
• exemption statute Is unambiguous, and therefore courts have no need for legislative history or implied exceptions

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