Harrison v. Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. (In re Harrison)

OPINION ON MOTION AND CROSS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DEBTORS’ APPLICATION TO FILE ANSWER OUT OF TIME

JUDITH H. WIZMUR, Bankruptcy Judge.

In this action, on competing motions for summary judgment, debtors, Karl and Mary Ellen Harrison, ask that Karl Harrison’s consolidated student loans be discharged under a previous version of 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8)(A). Debtors argue that the seven year “look back” period beyond which a debt may be discharged begins from the due date of the original loans. Alternatively, debtors allege that there have been multiple consolidations of the loans in question,…