IN RE BECKER

BAP No. 97-6082MN.

215 B.R. 585 (1998)

In re Terrance J. and Bernadette J. BECKER, Debtors. Michael S. DIETZ, Appellant, v. Terrance J. and Bernadette J. BECKER, Appellees.

United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Dietz, Rochester, MN, for appellant.

Barbara J. May, Arden Hills, MN, for appellee.

Before KOGER, Chief Judge, and WILLIAM A. HILL and SCOTT, Bankruptcy Judges.


SCOTT, Bankruptcy Judge.

The chapter 7 trustee appeals a determination by the bankruptcy court1 that the debtors, whose rural-use acreage is abutted on two sides by suburban residential homes, are entitled to a rural homestead exemption under Minnesota law. We affirm.

The debtors filed a voluntary chapter 7 bankruptcy case on October 7, 1997, at which time they claimed a rural homestead exemption in the 58 acres upon which they...

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