Legal Opinion
Bentley v. Boyajian (In Re Bentley)
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the First Circuit
Decided September 5, 2001No. RI 00-109PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Per curiam
I. INTRODUCTION
In their Chapter 13 plan, the Debtors proposed to pay their nondischargeable student loan obligations in full but to pay all other nonpriority unsecured claims — all of which were eligible to be discharged upon completion of the plan payments — a dividend of only three percent. The Debtors argued that such disparate treatment was justified by their desire to emerge from bankruptcy free of all prepetition debt. Upon objection by the Chapter 13 Trustee, the bankruptcy court disagreed and denied confirmation of the plan on the basis that it discriminated unfairly between the two…
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