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Heilman v. Heilman (In Re Heilman)

United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 26, 2010No. BAP No. EW-09-1150-HMoPa. Bankruptcy No. 05-08319-PCW. Adversary No. 08-80093-PCWPublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HOLLOWELL, Bankruptcy Judge.

The parties to this appeal are former spouses. Approximately six months prior to their divorce, Nicholas Heilman (the Debtor) filed, individually, for chapter 71 bankruptcy relief and received a discharge. Pam Heilman (Heilman) later sought a declaratory judgment against the Debtor to declare that the Debtor was obligated, by the terms of their dissolution decree, to hold Heilman harmless on a prepetition community debt owed to Heilman’s parents. The bankruptcy court held that the loan to Heilman’s parents had been discharged and therefore, Heilman could not…

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