MATTER OF LOPEZ

No. 17-50297.

897 F.3d 663 (2018)

In the MATTER OF: Manuel Palomera LOPEZ; Dolores Ronquillo Lopez, Debtors. Mary K. Viegelahn, Appellee, v. Manuel Palomera Lopez; Dolores Ronquillo Lopez, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed July 31, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vanessa DeLeon Guerrero , Attorney, Jessica Lanoue Hanzlik , Office of the Chapter 13 Trustee, San Antonio, TX, for Appellee.

J. Todd Malaise , Malaise Law Firm, San Antonio, TX, for Appellants.

Before KING, ELROD, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.


In this Chapter 13 bankruptcy case, debtors sold their Texas homestead and did not use the sale proceeds to purchase another home. The debtors later voluntarily dismissed their bankruptcy case. The bankruptcy court determined that the debtors were entitled to the return of the homestead proceeds because they...

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