United States Fifth Circuit

Because the Texas homestead exemption explicitly limits the exemption to six months, a failure to reinvest the proceeds of a sale into another Texas homestead within the statutory time period frees the Trustee to reach the proceeds as part of the bankruptcy estate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/28/2001
• Published 09/28/2001

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, WIENER, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rodney D. Tow (argued), Rodney Tow & Associates, Woodlands, TX, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey Alan Shadwick (argued), Houston, TX, for Appellees.