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IN RE RABIN

BAP No. NC-06-1005-A1MAS. Bankruptcy Nos. 05-32572, 05-32573.

359 B.R. 242 (2007)

In re Marla J. RABIN; Nanoshka C. Johnson, Debtors. Marla J. Rabin; Nanoshka C. Johnson, Appellants, v. E. Lynn Schoenmann, Chapter 7 Trustee, Appellee.

United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.

Original Filed December 8, 2006.

Amended January 24, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Morris, Law Office of Stephanie Morris, San Francisco, CA, for Marla J. Rabin and Nanoshka C. Johnson.

Elizabeth Murphy, Stromsheim & Associates, San Francisco, CA, for E. Lynn Schoenmann, trustee.

Before: ALLEY, MARLAR and SMITH, Bankruptcy Judges.

AMENDED OPINION

ALLEY, Bankruptcy Judge.

Appellants are registrants under California's statutory scheme defining the economic rights and liabilities of qualifying domestic partners. At the time their bankruptcy petitions were filed each owned an undivided interest in their home. Each claimed the full homestead exemption accorded to individuals by California law. The trustee objected to the exemptions, arguing that California law requires that the appellants...

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