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Shadow Players May Have Support Claims In Bankruptcy

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

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What we know so far about domestic support obligations in bankruptcy is that they are non dischargeable and the bankruptcy court has the last word as to what is and is not support. But we just scratched the surface in looking at support when we considered obligations from one spouse to another. Debts owed to […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Married: Assorted Bankruptcy Exemption Issues

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Our series on family law and  bankruptcy continues with an exploration of a mixed bag of exemption and property-of-the-estate questions colored by the fact the debtor has been married. Non debtors claim exemptions Section 522(b) opens with a provision that the debtor may exempt from the property of the estate property described in the section […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Can Family Court Order Discharged Spouse To Indemnify The Other?

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

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File bankruptcy before or after a divorce? It’s the classic bankruptcy family law conundrum. We think about about bankruptcy addressing the claims of third parties against the spouses. But consider the impact of a bankruptcy discharge granted to one spouse prior to the resolution of the divorce. What are the options and alternatives for the […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Domestic Support Obligations: When The Rules We Know Change

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Automatic Stay In Family Court

As bankruptcy lawyers, we’d like to get the world trained to simply halt in their tracks when a bankruptcy is filed and the automatic stay is invoked. It’s not so simple when there are family law proceedings afoot. Automatic stay Section 362(a) enjoins continuation of an action against the debtor to recover a claim or […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Non Support Debts In Bankruptcy: Our Options Have Changed

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Read the case annotations for Section 523(a)(15)of the Bankruptcy Code casually, and you can go really wrong. It’s like the phone tree admonition:  listen carefully because our options have changed. Before 2005, the dischargeability of non support obligations to former spouse or child incurred by the debtor in the course of divorce might be dischargeable, […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

How Bankruptcy Courts Deal With Alimony and Support

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

The starting place for our exploration of bankruptcy and family law is support. Whether it’s called alimony, maintenance, or support, any amounts due at the commencement of a bankruptcy case are non dischargeable. Actually, since BAPCPA, it’s called a domestic support obligation.  It got a statutory definition, as well: (14A) The term “domestic support obligation” means […]

Filed Under: Family Law in Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy And Family Law : Your New Frontier

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Family Law in Bankruptcy

Divorce is one of the three major predictors of bankruptcy filing, along with job loss and illness. Families that might have been making it as a single household are now two households.  Debts manageable before are now crushing. Or, families weren’t making it and the stress over money troubles hastens the end of the marriage. […]

Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Family Law in Bankruptcy

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