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Filing bankruptcy in Minnesota

Minnesota adjusts their exemption list on every even-numbered year to compensate for inflation.

Minnesota allows federal exemptions to be used in addition to their state exemptions, or you may substitute the federal exemptions in place of Minnesota state law. These include:

Homestead - Property up to $200,000 is exempt, property for agriculture up to $500,000

Personal property - Furniture, appliances and household goods up to $7,200, Bible, books and musical instrument, burial plots, clothing, food and utensils, motor vehicles up to $3,200

Insurance - Accident and/or disability benefits, life insurance, police and fire benefits

Miscellaneous - Minor children's earnings, property of business partnership

Pension - IRAs, private retirement benefits, public employees, state troopers, state employees

Public benefits - Unemployment compensation, veterans' benefits, workers' compensation, crime victims compensation

Tools of trade - Farm equipment, including animals and crops, to $13,000, teaching materials for public school teachers

Wages - At least 75 percent of unpaid wages, wages of released inmates paid within 6 months of release

There are four Minnesota District Bankruptcy Courts:

416 U.S. Courthouse
West First Street
Room 515
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
(218) 529-3600

204 U.S. Courthouse
South Mill Street
Room 118
Fergus Falls, Minnesota 56537
(218) 739-4671

301 U.S. Courthouse
South Fourth Street
Room 300
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415
(612) 664-5200

200 U.S. Courthouse
North Robert Street
Room 316
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
(651) 848-1000

Contact certified bankruptcy attorneys through these firms:

Minneapolis

Kalina, Wills, Gisvold & Clark, P.L.L.P
6160 Summit Drive, #560
Minneapolis, MN 55430
(612) 789-9000

Moss & Barnett, P.A.
90 South Seventh Street
4800 Norwest Center
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 347-0327

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
200 S 6th Street
Suite 4000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 492-7070

St. Paul

Lawrence J. Fallon, Attorney at Law
PO Box 251063
Woodbury, MN 55125
(651) 367-2001

Georgen-Running Law Firm, P.C.
P.O. Box 16355
One West Water Street
Suite 275
St. Paul, MN 55116
(651) 699-6980