Domestic Relations – Bankruptcy Discharge – Attorney’s Fees

By Deborah Elkins
Published: April 28, 2008

A husband’s debt of attorney’s fees to wife in her proceeding against husband for violations of a court visitation order cannot be discharged in husband’s bankruptcy, because the fee award to wife is “in the nature of child support.” When the parties divorced in 2004, wife won sole legal and primary physical custody of the parties’ ...

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