Gennet v. Docktor (In Re Levy)

How courts have described this case

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• stating as a general rule, homestead rights are extinguished by a conveyance of the premises by the homestead claimant
• unrealistic to expect a bankruptcy trustee to conduct a title search
• with the transfer of an interest in one's homestead to a creditor, the debtor conveys that property, and any interest therein, to a specific creditor ... retains no interest, either legal or equitable, in the property ... [and] abandons the claim to homestead

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).