Jackman v. Nance

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• concluding that a building used partly as a business could be claimed as a homestead, so long as the property remained the family’s “bona fide residence”
• concluding that a building used partly as a business could be claimed as a homestead, so long as the property remained the family's \bona fide residence\
• concluding that \a homestead may be claimed upon premises used partly for business and partly for a dwelling . . . provided it is and continues to be the bona fide residence of the family\ (emphasis omitted)
• stating that the purpose of homestead laws is to preserve family and community stability, those aims are more important than demands of creditors, and homestead laws are to be liberally construed in favor of the debtors
• stating that the purpose of homestead laws is to preserve family and community stability, those aims are more important than demands of creditors, and homestead laws are to be liberally construed in favor of the debtors
• exempting proceeds of a sale of a homestead from seizure for six months after the sale

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).