A drawing of the cuneiform transcription of a debt cancellation (amargi law) by Enmetena , ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, c. 2400 BC, basically the first known bankruptcy discharge. (Original in the Louvre.) By Lynn Yost.
Just stumbled on this while looking into the HAVEN Act which is likely to pass both the House and Senate and would exclude Veterans disability from the Means Test just like Social Security, as there are other retirement benefits that mirror those and are protected from creditors outside of bankruptcy.
Chris Miller, appearing pro se, appealed a ruling from the bankruptcy court but failed to file a designation of items from the bankruptcy docket for inclusion on the appellate record. After explicitly providing Mr. Miller 30 additional days to file the designation the court held that before dismissing an appeal pursuant to Rule 8003(a)(2), least one of the following steps must be taken:
The first section of this Bankruptcy Law Letter examines the questions surrounding the undefined term “educational benefit” in 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(8)(A)(ii), which makes private student loans, which do not meet the IRS definition of being a “qualified educational loan”, nondischargeable. These private loans can include bar review courses, loans for attendance at unacredited schools, loans for school or test preparation and ad hoc borrowing for that somehow relates to education.
