Balaski v. Educational Credit Management Corp. (In Re Balaski)

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• participating in income contingent repayment plan is just “one factor in a lengthy list of factors”
• participating in income contingent repayment plan is just “one factor in a lengthy list of factors,” and court does not accept view that debtor must be held “hostage for twenty-five years to debt and compounding interest”
• debtor suffered from severe physical deformity and other ailments precluding fu ture improvement in his financial situation
• “While defendant may believe holding debtor hostage for twenty-five years to debt and compounding interest is not an undue hardship, the court does not accept this view.”
• undue hardship found because debt- or’s physical deformity — he lacks wrists, elbows, or fully functioning hands — had worsened to where his shoulders were “destroyed” from overuse, his hip was degrading, and his spine was fusing

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