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HOMESTEAD
Real property; an apartment or mobile home you occupy to $100,000; sale proceeds exempt 18 months after sale or until new home purchased, whichever occurs first (husband and wife may not double)

INSURANCE
Fraternal benefit society benefits
20-881

Group life insurance policy or proceeds
20-1132

Health, accident or disability benefits
33-1126(A)(3)

Life insurance cash value to $1,000 per dependent ($25,000 total) (husband and wife may double)
33-1126 \(A)(3)

Life insurance cash value to $2,000 per dependent ($10,000 total)
20-1131(D)

Life insurance proceeds to $20,000 if beneficiary is spouse or child (husband and wife may double)
33-1126(A)(1)

MISC.
Minor child’s earnings, unless debt is for child
33-1126(A)(2)

PENSIONS
Board of regents members
15-1628(I)

ERISA-qualified benefits deposited more than 120 days before filing bankruptcy
33-1126(B)

IRAs
In re Herrscher, 121 B.R. 29 (D. Ariz. 1990)

Firefighters
9-968

Police officers
9-931

Public safety personnel
38-850(C)

Rangers
41-955

State employees
38-762

PERSONAL PROPERTY

husband and wife may double all personal property exemptions
2 beds and living room chair per person; 1 dresser, table, lamp, bedding per bed; kitchen table; dining room table and 4 chairs (1 more per person); living room carpet or rug; couch; 3 lamps; 3 coffee or end tables; pictures, paintings, drawings created by debtor; family portraits; refrigerator; stove; TV, radio or stereo; alarm clock; washer; dryer; vacuum cleaner to $4,000 total
33-1123

Bank deposit to $150 in one account
33-1126(A)(8)

Bible; bicycle; sewing machine; typewriter; burial plot; rifle, pistol or shotgun to $500 total
33-1125

Books to $250; clothing to $500; wedding and engagement rings to $1,000; watch to $100; pets, horses, milk cows and poultry to $500; musical instrument to $250; prostheses, including wheelchair

33-1125

Food and fuel to last 6 months
33-1124

Motor vehicle to $1,500 ($4,000, if disabled)
33-1125(8)

Prepaid rent or security deposit to $1,000 or 1-1/2 times your rent, whichever is less, in lieu of homestead
33-1126(D)

PUBLIC BENEFITS
Unemployment compensation 23-783
Welfare benefits 46-208
Workers’ compensation 23-1068

TOOLS OF TRADE
Arms, uniforms and accouterments you are required to keep 33-1130(3)
Farm machinery, utensils, seed, instrument of husbandry, feed, grain and animals to $2,500 total (husband and wife may double) 33-1130(2)
Teaching aids of teacher 33-1127
Tools, equipment, instruments and books (except vehicle driven to work) to $2,500 33-1130(1)

WAGES
Minimum 75% of earned but unpaid wages, pension payments; bankruptcy judge may authorize more for low-income debtors 33-1131

WILD CARD
None

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