Originally posted on Yahoo Finance by Aarthi Swaminathan
A 51-year-old former public servant from Texas served as her own lawyer and won a personal bankruptcy ruling that erased her $41,509 in student loan debt.
“I knew I needed to wipe the slate clean, to start over,” Katy Adams told Yahoo Finance, “because of the circumstances I was under… it was truly overwhelming.”
The case further highlights the emerging trend of student loan borrowers successfully finding relief through personal bankruptcy. Several cases in the last two years — including a case of a grandmother in Nebraska and a groundbreaking case in New York — show that bankruptcy judges are increasingly willing to consider student loan debt along with other debts in personal bankruptcy.
