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SCOTX accepts the homestead-exemption case

By Don Cruse

With an unscheduled orders list today, the Texas Supreme Court accepted the Fifth Circuit’s certified question about the Texas homestead exemption.

The question boils down to whether there is an equitable exception that a creditor can use to defeat the Texas homestead exemption.

The parties will now have a chance to submit additional briefs in the case. The case is set for oral argument on March 1, 2011.

Full post as published by Supreme Court of Texas Blog on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).