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IN RE CARSTENS

Bankruptcy Nos. 80-04005, 80-04019.

8 B.R. 524 (1981)

In re Kenneth Wayne CARSTENS and Sandra Beth Adams Carstens dba Carstens Contractors aka Ken Carstens Construction dba Shaklee Distributor fdba Ken San Sales, Debtors. In re Lawrence Leroy HANSEN aka Leroy Hansen and Patricia Ann Wisecup Hansen aka Pat Ann Wisecup Hansen, Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Iowa, W.D.

January 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Pirog, Sioux City, Iowa, for debtors.

W.J. Giles, III, trustee, pro se.

MEMORANDUM

WILLIAM W. THINNES, Bankruptcy Judge.

The two cases before the Court present a common question of law. In each of their schedules, the husband-debtor elected to claim his exemptions under Iowa law and claim the entire homestead as exempt. The wife-debtor in each petition elected to choose the Federal exemptions prescribed in 11 U.S.C. § 522(d). The debtors maintained that even though the husband-debtor has claimed the entire homestead as...

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