Legal Opinion
Harold W. McClellan v. Bobbie Darrell Cantrell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 2000No. 99-3923PublishedCited by 319 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*892POSNER, Chief Judge.
In the ordinary course of bankruptcy, the debtor’s assets are applied to the payment of his debts and, even though the assets will usually be insufficient to pay those debts in full, he will emerge from bankruptcy with the unpaid balance discharged so that he can start afresh with no overhang of debt. Some types of debt, however, are not dischargeable, and among them- are debts “for money,- property, services, or an extension, renewal, or refinancing of credit, to the extent obtained by false pretenses, a false representation, or actual fraud, other than a statement…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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