Rosin Law Offices, P.A. v. Lapsley (In Re Lapsley)

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

C. TIMOTHY CORCORAN, III, Bankruptcy Judge.

This adversary proceeding came on for trial on November 9, 1998. The plaintiff is the attorney who represented the debtor’s former wife in her dissolution of marriage and post-judgment modification litigation. The defendant (sometimes also “debtor” or “husband”) owes the plaintiff amounts awarded to her as attorneys fees in that litigation. The plaintiff seeks a determination that these fees are excepted from the debtor’s Chapter 7 discharge pursuant to the provisions of Section 523(a)(5) and (15) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Based…