Vickrey v. Smith

RUSSELL, Judge.

The parties were divorced in 1985, and the husband, among other things, was required to be responsible for the “debts and liabilities” on a mobile home and two acres of property to which the wife gave up all right, title, and interest. In 1988 the husband filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition, in which he sought a discharge from the mortgage on the property. The wife filed an adversary proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court, contesting the discharge of the debt. That debt was held to be nondischargeable both in the bankruptcy court and on appeal in the United States…