In Re Morehead’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. “Some benefits, such as retirement benefits that will continue until death, are clearly permanent. And benefits with a short, fixed time limitation (for example, unemployment benefits running for ninety days) are clearly temporary. Disability insurance payments fall somewhere in the middle. For example, [a disability insurance benefit] could continue until the age of 65 or [it] could stop tomorrow if [the] disability ends.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Wegrzyn

2. “(d) The following property may be exempted under subsection (b)(1) of this section: (10) the debtor’s right to receive — ... (E) a payment under a stock bonus, pension, profit-sharing annuity, or similar plan or contract on account of illness, disability, death, age, or length of service, to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and any dependent of the debtor”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Greenly