More Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge News

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  My Private Student Loans Can Be Discharged in Bankruptcy, Right?

  Question: Dear Steve, I took out a Sallie Mae student loan for my son...

  • Posted January 4, 2018
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  Why Does the Trump Department of Education Hate Student Loan Debtors This Much?

  In July of 2015 the Department of Education reached a published decision on how...

  • Posted December 14, 2017
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  HR 2366 to Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy Has Nearly Zero Chance of Passing

  HR 2366 was a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in May of...

  • Posted November 30, 2017
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  Wells Fargo Facing Penalties Over Ignoring Student Loan Included in Bankruptcy

  One of our very own student loan attorneys, Austin Smith, recently scored an important...

  • Posted November 27, 2017
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  Why Don’t More Student Loan Borrowers File Bankruptcy?

  Matt Taibbi wrote a terrific article for Rolling Stone about the student loan crisis....

  • Posted November 14, 2017
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  Outside the Box Bankruptcy Solutions for Student Loans Really Exist

  While most of our work to reduce and eliminate student loan debt is being...

  • Posted October 18, 2017
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  Heaps of Navient Private Student Loans May Be Voided and Refunded in Nationwide Class Action Suit

  In a suit filed in 2016 by Evan Haas and Michael Shabazi against Navient...

  • Posted October 10, 2017
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  Federal Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge Upheld on Appeal

  In a previous essay, I wrote about Alan and Catherine Murray, a married couple...

  • Posted October 10, 2017
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  Fear Not the Difficulty of Discharging Student Loans in Bankruptcy

  True Because perception is often reality, and the perception is that discharging student loans...

  • Posted September 27, 2017
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  Bankruptcy Court Appeal Rules in Favor of Discharging Some Federal Student Loan Debt

  Back at the end of 2016 a Kansas bankruptcy judge ruled on this bankruptcy...

  • Posted September 26, 2017
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  Attorneys Need to Stop Saying Student Loans Can’t be Discharged in Bankruptcy Because Sometimes They Can Be

  Too many Americans are going to court without lawyers. As Lauren Sudeall Lucas and...

  • Posted September 25, 2017
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  Is Citizens Bank Setting Up Student Loan Debtor for Failure With These Loans?

  Awhile back, I posted an essay on Decena v. Citizens Bank, a bankruptcy court...

  • Posted September 22, 2017
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  Disabled Veteran Wins Stipulated Discharge of Federal Student Loans in California Bankruptcy Court

  The Department of Education has said publicly that it will discharge student-loan debt of...

  • Posted August 10, 2017
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  California Student Loan Co-Signer Statute Helps to Kill Student Loan Debt

  California attorney Christine Kingston shared an interesting issue regarding National Collegiate Student Loan Trust...

  • Posted July 25, 2017
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  Consumer Files Their Own Bankruptcy Case and Eliminates Their Navient Student Loans

  Thomas Lathrop filed his own bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding to get his Navient private student...

  • Posted July 24, 2017
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