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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re Lou Ann CASSELL, Debtor. Robert B. Silliman, Chapter 7 Trustee, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lou Ann Cassell, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 11-13115.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    March 22, 2013.
    Martha A. Miller, Martha A. Miller, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Eric Edward Thorstenberg, Law Office of Eric Thorstenberg, Atlanta, GA, for De-fendanb-Appellee.
    Before CARNES, MARTIN and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.
   CARNES, Circuit Judge:

We are grateful to the Supreme Court of Georgia for the clear and dispositive answers it has provided in response to the questions that we certified. See Silliman v. Cassell, 292 Ga. 464, 738 S.E.2d 606 (2013). In light of that Court’s decision, Lou Ann Cassell’s “annuity” is an annuity within the meaning of the Georgia bankruptcy exemption statute, Ga.Code Ann. § 44-13-100(a)(2)(E), and the annuity payments to her are “on account of ... age.” The judgment of the district court is

AFFIRMED. 
      
      . The bankruptcy trustee has conceded that the third requirement for the exception under the Georgia statute, which is that the payments are “reasonably necessary to the support of the debtor,” has been met.