Overland Park Bankruptcy Attorney

Can a school refuse to issue a transcript to a debtor who had wiped out his outstanding balance owed to the school in a bankruptcy case?  No.  A recent case demonstrates the power of the bankruptcy discharge in dealing with all types of collateral issues that might come about from the wiping out of debts in a case.

In In re Moore, 407 B.R. 855, 861 (Bankr. E.D. Va. 2009), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Novus Law School violated a discharge injunction by refusing to issue a transcript or award a degree to Moore, a law student, until he paid his outstanding tuition balance, which had been discharged in Moore’s chapter 7 proceeding.

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