In Re Sandor Chabot in Re Betty B. Chabot, Debtors. City National Bank v. Sandor Chabot Betty B. Chabot

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a simpler view of section 522(f), which protects the amount of the exemption only, is dictated by the plain meaning of the statute”
• holding that an exemption is not impaired unless its amount is diminished in value
• “There is no basis for the proposition that the homestead exemption provides ownership benefits, such as the right to appreciation, beyond the set amount.”
• “an exemption is not impaired unless its amount is diminished in value.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).