U.S. District Court, Maryland 

Posted: 1:00 am Wed, November 20, 2002
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<button><b><font face="times">Bankruptcy</font></b></button><b><i>Sufficiency of interest to invoke automatic stay</i>BOTTOM LINE:</b> Debtor’s wife did not have an “interest” in the property sufficient to trigger automatic stay by virtue of either FL §8-201 or her actual possession of the property on the date she filed her bankruptcy petition.<b>CASE:</b> Culver v. Boozer, No. CCB-02-2979 (decided Oct. 6, 2002) (Judge BLAKE). RecordFax No. 2-1006-40, 11 pages.<b>COUNSEL:</b> Allan J. Culver, Jr., Pro se, Bel Air. For F. Vernon Boozer, Edward C. Covahey, Jr., Thomas P. Dore, Rodger J. Sullivan,: Douglas W. Biser, Mudd, Harrison and Burch, Towson.<b>FACTS:</b> Allan J. Culver filed for protection under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code in 1997, and the case was dismissed on December 7, 1998. As a result, a foreclosure sale of the property at issue was scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on April 21, 1999. At 2:45 p.m. on April 21, 1999, Deborah Culv