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Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

An Emerging Trend in Favor of Student Loan Discharges in Bankruptcy

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We recently reported on a Fifth Circuit decision that ruled some private, for-profit student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy without a showing of undue hardship—something unusual and inconsistent with the widely-held...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

First Circuit Holds that Parents’ Tuition Payments for Adult Children Are Fraudulent Transfers

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Recently, the First Circuit held that a parent’s tuition payments on behalf of an adult child do not benefit the parent’s bankruptcy estate, and a Chapter 7 trustee may therefore claw the payments back as fraudulent...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Bankruptcy Beat: An Emerging Trend: Bankruptcy Trustees Seeking to Claw Back Tuition Payments Made by Unsuspecting Parents

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A developing trend in our nation’s bankruptcy courts has been the number of lawsuits filed or threatened by bankruptcy trustees to recover tuition payments made by a student’s parents when the parents later file for...more

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