United States Fourth Circuit

Under Virginia law, Chapter 13 debtor is entitled to redeem her car pursuant to the automatic stay and turnover provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. Return of the car, her sole means of transportation to work, facilitates her financial rehabilitation; the security interest of the finance company, which repossessed the car just prior to her bankruptcy petition, is adequately protected in the bankruptcy plan.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2004
• Published 01/23/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  James Robert Sheeran, Tidewater Finance Company, Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellant.  Robert Ross Weed, Law Office of Robert R. Weed, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.