advice of counsel and under a mistaken belief that his prepetition expenditures were legitimate investments in his homestead, but the subsequent events, as the bankruptcy court noted, do not support that contention. First, none of the transfers were reported on his original schedules or his amended schedules, despite the fact that other prepetition transfers and payments were listed. Debtor’s assertion that he did not think he had to list them in his schedules does not excuse the omission. To the contrary, “[d]ebtors have an absolute duty to report whatever interests they hold in property, even if they believe their assets are worthless or are unavailable to the bankruptcy estate.” In re Yonikus, 974 F.2d 901, 904 (7th Cir.1992); see also Mertz v. Rott, 955 F.2d 596, 598 (8th Cir.1992) (<HOLDING>). At 11 U.S.C. § 522, the Bankruptcy Code
holding that the appellant waived his claim on appeal because he failed to address that claim in either his application for a coa or his brief on appeal holding that defendant was not resident of his mothers household even though his drivers license listed his mothers address and he received mail there because he expressed a belief that his residence was in a different location than his mothers home he rented and occupied his own residence and he testified that he was only living with his mother after expiration of his lease until he could find another place to live holding that where a debtor believes an asset is exemptible he cannot simply omit it from his schedule rather he must list the asset on his schedules and then claim the exemption holding that plaintiff could not show that he was disabled because he conceded that he could do his job despite his impairment holding that the district court did not err in continuing the trial without defendant when the trial had commenced in defendants presence he vigorously expressed his desire to be absent he was given ample opportunity to change his mind despite the disturbance he had created he had competent counsel and he knew of his right to be present