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Bankruptcy - Debt Discharge - Student Loan - Mental Illness (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 1, 2008

With further fact-finding as directed by the district court, this Harrisonburg U.S. Bankruptcy Court holds that debtor, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and HIV, failed to establish a history of regular payments of his student loans and cannot demonstrate that his illnesses prevented him from making further payments after 2001, and debtor fails to qualify ...
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