Howard v. Howard (In Re Howard)

ORDER

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

Wanda Lee Howard, frustrated beneficiary of recent court orders in a domestic relations dispute pending in Jefferson Circuit Court, now brings a complaint for non-dischargeability and to lift the automatic stay against her bankrupt former husband.

A dissolution agreement between Wanda and Billie Earl Howard, incorporated into a subsequent divorce decree, provides that “each party waives any claims that he or she may have, one against the other, for any periodic or lump sum maintenance, now or in the future.” Elsewhere the agreement binds the former…