By Jeff Field | Published May 15, 2022 | Posted in Bankruptcy | Tagged Tags: Brunner Test, student loan debt, student loan discharges, student loan relief in bankruptcy | Leave a comment
Proving “Undue Hardship” to Discharge Student Loan Debt
Americans are now burdened by $1.75 trillion in student loan debt. That’s twice as much as the $856 billion Americans owe on credit cards. Not surprisingly, a large number of people who file for bankruptcy have student loan debt. Unfortunately, only about 1 percent of them even try to get that debt discharged. Part of Read More
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For the past four decades, a general rule when filing bankruptcy was that you could not discharge debts for student loans. While this is still usually the case, there may be some situations in which it is possible to discharge these debts as part of a bankruptcy filing. Borrowers must demonstrate that their student loan Read More
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