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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

According to family law lawyers in San Marcos, 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 […]

Filed Under: Bankruptcy Practice, Family Law in Bankruptcy

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