HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case involves the issue of whether debtors can avoid a lien pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522(f) on property exempt under state law even though they have waived their state law rights attendant to such property. Both the bankruptcy court and the district court held that a debtor could avoid a lien in such an instance. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On October 9, 1987, two Minnesota farmers (debtors) filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy...
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