Tellevik v. REAL PROPERTY IN PIERCE CTY.

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• holding that homestead property is not exempt from forfeiture under exemption which protects the homestead from “attachment and ... execution or forced sale for the debts of the owner”
• reasoning that the constitutional homestead provision is not self-executing; it imposes a duty on the legislature to set up a procedure to protect a portion of the owner’s property occupied as a residence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).