Wilding v. CitiFinancial Consumer Financial Services, Inc.

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• concluding that “petition date is the operative date for determining the various § 522(f) calculations” and thus permitting debtor to avoid judicial lien that had been satisfied after petition date but before motion to avoid lien had been filed
• indicating that the court has discretion to determine whether to reopen a case in light of equitable defenses including “laches, fraud, detrimental reliance, and prejudice”
• holding that § 522 permits a debtor to avoid a judicial lien provided the lien existed on the petition date, even though the lien was satisfied after the bankruptcy case was closed and before the debtor filed a motion to avoid the lien

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