In Re Lewis
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MARY DAVIES SCOTT, Bankruptcy Judge.
This case presents a particularly egregious example of a debtor abusing the bankruptcy process in order to avoid child and spousal support obligations imposed by a state court. The debtor not only sought to avoid the obligations imposed by the state court, sought to evict his former spouse (and therefore also his child) from the family residence through the plan, purloined the mortgage payments sent to him by the former spouse, causing a foreclosure action, but he also filed, under penalty of perjury, contradictory documents with the bankruptcy court…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- In Re Stuart R. And Shiela M. Terry, Debtors, A. L. Tenney, Trustee v. Stuart R. And Shiela M. Terry, DebtorsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
- Roger M. Noreen v. Starr Bridget SlattengrenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
- United States v. WaindelCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995
- Matter of MeintsDistrict Court, D. Nebraska · 1998
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