O'connor v. Perlin (In re Perlin)

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Barry M. Perlin, the debtor in this bankruptcy case, appeals the district court’s order affirming the bankruptcy court’s determination that the debtor’s obligation under a divorce decree to pay his former spouse’s attorney fees and expert witness fees was part of a support obligation and thus was not dischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(5). Perlin argues on appeal that the plaintiffs— his former spouse’s attorneys in their divorce and one of her expert witnesses — lack standing to seek a determination of debt dis-chargeability because an Arizona court’s divorce decree…