Klein v. Chappell (In Re Chappell)

How courts have described this case

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• ruling debtors’ exemption was for dollar amount, not for asset itself and reviewing history of such rulings in Ninth Circuit
• observing that “[s]uch a motion would either [] force[] the trustee to sell before he might otherwise have preferred or allow[] the debtors to withdraw the property from the estate entirely as being ‘of inconsequential value and benefit to the estate’”
• “[Exemptions ... are determined on the date of bankruptcy and without reference to subsequent changes in the character or value of the exempt property-”
• \Whether property is included in a bankruptcy estate is a question of law . . . subject to de novo review.\
• “critical date for determining exemption rights is the petition date;” “exemptions ... are determined on the date of bankruptcy and without reference to subsequent changes in the character or value of the exempt property”
• “critical date for determining exemption rights is the petition date;” “exemptions . . . are determined on the date of bankruptcy and without reference to subsequent changes in the character or value of the exempt property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).