Wisconsin bankruptcy exemptions
- Wis. Stat. § 20.921(1)(e): Salary used to purchase exempt bonds-not over 10% of salary
- Wis. Stat. § 40.08(1): Public employee trust fund benefits
- Wis. Stat. § 41.22(1)(a): Public employees' retirement
- Wis. Stat. § 42.52 Teachers: retirement benefits
- Wis. Stat. § 45.35(8)(b): Veteran's benefits
- Wis. Stat. § 49.41 A.F.D.C.: and social services, public assistance
- Wis. Stat. § 66.81: City employees' retirement
- Wis. Stat. § 102.27: Workmen's compensation
- Wis. Stat. § 108.13: Unemployment compensation
- Wis. Stat. § 178.21(3)(c): Specific partnership property
- Wis. Stat. § 178.21(3)(c): Specific partnership property
- Wis. Stat. § 182.004(6): Tenants' interest in Housing Corp.
- Wis. Stat. § 425.106 and 421.301: Consumer credit transactions - unpaid earnings, certain household goods
- Wis. Stat. § 815.20(1): An exempt homestead as defined in s. 990.01 (14) selected by a resident owner and occupied by him or her shall be exempt from execution, from the lien of every judgment, and from liability for the debts of the owner to the amount of $75,000, except mortgages, laborers', mechanics', and purchase money liens and taxes and except as otherwise provided. The exemption shall not be impaired by temporary removal with the intention to reoccupy the premises as a homestead nor by the sale of the homestead, but shall extend to the proceeds derived from the sale to an amount not exceeding $75,000, while held, with the intention to procure another homestead with the proceeds, for 2 years. The exemption extends to land owned by husband and wife jointly or in common or as marital property, and each spouse may claim a homestead exemption of not more than $75,000. The exemption extends to the interest therein of tenants in common, having a homestead thereon with the consent of the cotenants
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(a): Provisions for burial. Cemetery lots, aboveground burial facilities, burial monuments, tombstones, coffins, cremation urns, urn vaults, outer burial containers, or other articles for the burial of the dead owned by the debtor and intended for the burial of the debtor or the debtor's family.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(b)1.: Equipment, inventory, farm products, and professional books used in the business of the debtor or the business of a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $15,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(b)2.: (business and farm) If the debtor does not claim an exemption under subd. 1., any interest of the debtor, not to exceed $15,000 in aggregate value, in a closely held business that employs the debtor or in whose business the debtor is actively involved.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(b)2.: (business and farm) If the debtor does not claim an exemption under subd. 1., any interest of the debtor, not to exceed $15,000 in aggregate value, in a closely held business that employs the debtor or in whose business the debtor is actively involved.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(b)2.: (business and farm) If the debtor does not claim an exemption under subd. 1., any interest of the debtor, not to exceed $15,000 in aggregate value, in a closely held business that employs the debtor or in whose business the debtor is actively involved.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(b)2.: (business and farm) If the debtor does not claim an exemption under subd. 1., any interest of the debtor, not to exceed $15,000 in aggregate value, in a closely held business that employs the debtor or in whose business the debtor is actively involved.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(c): Child support, family support or maintenance payments. Alimony, child support, family support, maintenance or separate maintenance payments to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and the debtor's dependents.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(d): Consumer goods. Household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, or other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, not to exceed $12,000 in aggregate value.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(df): County fairs and agricultural societies. All sums paid as state aid under s. 93.23 (1) to county fairs and agricultural societies.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(ds): Federal disability insurance benefits. All moneys received or receivable by a person as federal disability insurance benefits under 42 USC 401 to 433.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(e): Fire and casualty insurance. For a period of 2 years after the date of receipt, insurance proceeds on exempt property payable to and received by the debtor, if the exempt property has been destroyed or damaged by fire or casualty of any nature.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(ef): Fire and police pension fund. All money paid or ordered to be paid to any member of any fire or police department or to the surviving spouse or guardian of the minor child or children of a deceased or retired member of any such department, which money has been paid or ordered to be paid to any such person as a pension on account of the service of any person in any such department in any city in this state whose population exceeds 100,000.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(em): Fire engines and equipment. All fire engines, apparatus and equipment, including hose, hose carts and hooks and ladders, belonging to or which may hereafter belong to any town, city or village in this state, and which are or may be kept and used for the protection of property in such town, city or village from fire, together with the engine houses and hooks and ladder houses for the protection of the same, and the lot or lots on which such engine and hook and ladder houses may be situated, when owned by any such town, city or village; and any lot or lots owned, used and occupied by any such town, city or village for corporate purposes.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(f): Life insurance and annuities.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(f): Life insurance and annuities.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)((g): Motor vehicles. Motor vehicles not to exceed $4,000 in aggregate value. Any unused amount of the aggregate value from par. (d) may be added to this exemption to increase the aggregate exempt value of motor vehicles under this paragraph.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(h): Net income. Seventy-five percent of the debtor's net income for each one week pay period. The benefits of this exemption are limited to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and the debtor's dependents, but to not less than 30 times the greater of the state or federal minimum wage.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i): Life insurance claims, (personal injury limited to $500000 or wrongful death claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i): Life insurance claims, (personal injury limited to $500000 or wrongful death claims.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i)a.: A payment to the debtor under a life insurance contract that insured the life of an individual of whom the debtor was a dependent on the date of that individual's death, to the extent reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and the debtor's dependents.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i)b.: A payment resulting from the wrongful death of an individual of whom the debtor was a dependent, in an amount reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and the debtor's dependents.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i)c.: A payment, not to exceed $50,000, resulting from personal bodily injury, including pain and suffering or compensation for actual pecuniary loss, of the debtor or an individual of whom the debtor is a dependent.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(i)d.: A payment in compensation of loss of future earnings of the debtor or an individual of whom the debtor is or was a dependent in an amount reasonably necessary for the support of the debtor and the debtor's dependents.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(j) : Retirement benefits.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(j)1.: Assets held or amounts payable under any retirement, pension, disability, death benefit, stock bonus, profit sharing plan, annuity, individual retirement account, individual retirement annuity, Keogh, 401-K or similar plan or contract providing benefits by reason of age, illness, disability, death or length of service and payments made to the debtor therefrom.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(k): Depository accounts. Depository accounts in the aggregate value of $5,000, but only to the extent that the account is for the debtor's personal use and is not used as a business account.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(m): Private property from execution against municipalities. All private property shall be exempt from seizure and sale upon any execution or other process issued to enforce any judgment or decree of any court that has been rendered against any county, town, city, village, technical college district or school district in this state.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(n): War pension. All money received by a person, a resident of this state, as pension, compensation, government insurance, or adjusted compensation, back pension, compensation or insurance from the U.S. government on account of military or naval service, and all other money received by a person on account of military or naval service from the U.S. government administered by the U.S. department of veterans affairs, whether the same is in the actual possession of such person, on deposit, or loaned.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(o): Tuition units. Tuition units purchased under s. 224.48.
- Wis. Stat. § 815.18(3)(p): College savings accounts. An interest in a college savings account under s. 224.50..