OPINION
VOLINN, Bankruptcy Judge:
OVERVIEW
Under California law, a debtor does not have automatic homestead protection against a judgment lien that attaches to real property at a time prior to the debtor having made the property a dwelling place. In the order on review, the bankruptcy court held state law governed and denied the debtors' motion to avoid such a pre-existing lien as impairing their homestead based on the federal exemption...
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