Garcino v. Noel

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Ian Garcino seeks to collect a debt from his ex-wife. He argues the chancery court misapplied federal bankruptcy law to find the debt had been discharged — or erased — in his ex-wife’s bankruptcy case. But the issue is not whether the chancery court erroneously decided the debt was discharged. The issue is whether the bankruptcy court had already decided the debt was discharged — thereby binding the *472chancery court under the doctrine of res judicata.

¶ 2. We find the bankruptcy court decided that the debt was discharged when it dismissed Garcino’s adversary…