Latham v. City of Los Angeles

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• noting that, under a similar Georgia exemption statute, the trustee bore the burden to show that “the payments were not intended to substitute for wages”
• finding that an annuity provided income as a substitute for wages where the annuity gave the debtor the immediate right to payments and the debtor testified that “she purchased the annuity to replace her income given her age at the time of purchase, 65, and to support her in her retirement”
• applying the Rousey “on account of age” standard to a similar state exemption statute, and noting that “nothing in [the state exemption statute] indicates an intent to limit application of the exemption to annuities purchased before the payee attains a certain age”

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