Key legal question
Whether the debtor’s basic amount in the existence-minimum calculation had to be set as for a single person rather than as half of an amount for two adults in a household community.
Extracted holding
The lower authority used an incorrect criterion by treating the mother-daughter household like a partners' household; the debtor’s existence minimum had to be recalculated on the basis of a single-person basic amount.
Extracted reasoning
A durable household community comparable to marriage requires a partnership-like relationship. An adult employed daughter living with her mother is not such a community. For adult children in shared housing, only the housing costs may generally be adjusted, not the general household basic amount.