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IN RE BROOKS

Bankruptcy No. 83 B 20092.

31 B.R. 302 (1983)

In re Jonathan B. BROOKS and Barbara K. Brooks, Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York.

June 22, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teitelbaum & Gamberg, P.C., New York City, for trustee.

Joseph J. Durkin, Peekskill, N.Y., for debtors.

DECISION ON TRUSTEE'S MOTION TO REDUCE DEBTORS' HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION TO $10,000.

HOWARD SCHWARTZBERG, Bankruptcy Judge.

The trustee in this joint Chapter 7 case filed pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 302 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, objects to the debtors' doubling of the New York homestead exemption to the sum of $20,000 instead of limiting the exemption for real property occupied as a principal residence to the $10,000 value expressed in New York CPLR...

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