“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success (1758). For parents paying their adult child’s college education costs, however, this investment may not be worth (to them) the cost of tuition — at least according to some bankruptcy courts. With increasing frequency, chapter 7 trustees are looking to insolvent parents as well as colleges and universities to avoid and recover for estate creditors payments made by insolvent debtors for the benefit of the debtors’ dependents...
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