NAPOTNIK v. EQUIBANK & PARKVALE SAV. ASS'N

No. 81-2869.

679 F.2d 316 (1982)

Gary T. NAPOTNIK, Appellant, v. EQUIBANK AND PARKVALE SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas A. Campbell (argued), Campbell & Levine, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Robert N. Hackett (argued), Karen M. Baskin, Baskin & Sears, P. C., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee Equibank.

Henry J. Sommer (argued), Irwin Trauss, Community Legal Services, Inc., Law Center Northeast, Philadelphia, Pa., for Consumers Ed. and Protective Ass'n, Inc., and Mary L. Hackett, amici curiae.

Before GIBBONS and HUNTER, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 12, 1982.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

The provisions for granting debtors exemptions under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 11 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. (the Code), create potentially complex interrelationships between federal and state law. In this case, we must determine the application of a Code exemption provision to property held in tenancy by the entirety in light of the...

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