IN RE GILL

Bankruptcy No. 58500301.

61 B.R. 201 (1986)

In re Gene GILL, Helen Gill, Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Kentucky.

May 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Whitlow, Paducah, Ky., for defendant.

Larry G. Kelly, Wickliffe, Ky., for plaintiff.

James Harris, Paducah, Ky., trustee.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

Here an objecting creditor urges us to formulate a new common law rule which would radically alter Kentucky's statutory grant of homestead exemptions. The proposed rule would have us measure the homestead not by the four corners of the deed, but by the fence around the curtilage. For reasons both practical and legal we reject the argument. The facts may be summarized in a single paragraph.

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