It is just a fact that the over one trillion (uh, yeah, not billion, not hundreds of billions, trillion) dollars of student debt now outstanding in our fair land will not be repaid. Because the graduates will not generate sufficient income to pay it back. The jobs they were told were out there for them [...]
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Bankruptcy lawyers and their clients are plagued by the Brunner test when trying to discharge student loans. While the Bankruptcy Code says that student loans may be discharged if the debtor shows “undue hardship,” the Brunner test provides that student loans may only be discharged if the debtor shows: (1) inability, at his current level [...]
You may be able to deduct your student loan payment as an expense on your bankruptcy petition if you file Chapter 7, but usually cannot if you file Chapter 13. As you probably know, student loan debts are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy. That means that if you file a Chapter 7, you will still have to pay [...]
I’ll bet that if you asked the average person what debt is the worst kind of debt, he’d say taxes. But owing student loans is, ironically, far worse than owing Uncle Sam. During my next few posts, I’ll examine exactly what a student loan is, a bit of history of how the Bankruptcy Code has [...]
