2005 Minnesota Statutes

     510.07 Sale or removal permitted; insurance proceeds; 
  notice. 

    The owner may sell and convey the homestead without 
 subjecting it, or the proceeds of such sale for the period of 
 one year after sale, to any judgment or debt from which it was 
 exempt in the owner's hands, except that the proceeds of the 
 sale are not exempt from a judgment or debt for a court ordered 
 child support or maintenance obligation in arrears.  The 
 proceeds of an insurance claim for an exempt homestead are 
 exempt for one year.  The owner may remove therefrom without 
 affecting such exemption, if the owner does not thereby abandon 
 the same as the place of abode.  If the owner shall cease to 
 occupy such homestead for more than six consecutive months the 
 owner shall be deemed to have abandoned the same unless, within 
 such period, the owner shall file with the county recorder of 
 the county in which it is situated a notice, executed, 
 witnessed, and acknowledged as in the case of a deed, describing 
 the premises and claiming the same as the owner's homestead.  In 
 no case shall the exemption continue more than five years after 
 such filing, unless during some part of the term the premises 
 shall have been occupied as the actual dwelling place of the 
 debtor or the debtor's family. 

    HIST: (8342) RL s 3458; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 403 
 art 3 s 75; 1993 c 79 s 3