Lawrence v. Jahn (In Re Lawrence)

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• relying on Kokoszka v. Belford, 417 U.S. 642 , 94 S.Ct. 2431 , 41 L.Ed.2d 374 (1974
• reading Kokoszka more narrowly; holding debtor’s earnings exempt under Missouri garnishment statute
• noting the statute at issue was “fundamentally different from . . . other Tennessee exemption statutes” because it did “not contain similar broad language,” but “merely limit [ed] . . . the amount of disposable earnings that may be subjected to garnishment”
• \... statutes in pari materia relating to a common subject matter ... should be construed together and harmonized.\
• Tennessee garnishment statute does not provide debtors with a general exemption for non-garnishable disposable earnings in bankruptcy
• The Chapter 7 Trustee “has the exclusive standing and capacity to sue and be sued on behalf of the bankruptcy estate under 11 U.S.C. § 323(b).”

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