Beauchamp v. Graham (In Re Graham)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

An eighteen-year-old domestic relations dispute will hopefully be ended by this final order, which holds that a former husband may not discharge in bankruptcy his maintenance obligations to his offspring, which have gone unpaid over the major part of a lifetime.

To begin, our findings of fact, at the beginning:

Juanita Graham (now Beauchamp, the plaintiff in this action) sued Bill Graham (the bankrupt and defendant) for divorce in Jefferson Circuit Court in April, 1963.

The next month an order was entered, pursuant to a Commissioner’s…