Burton v. Burton (In Re Burton)

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a money judgment was not intended to be in the nature of alimony, maintenance or support because it is “hard to buy daily necessities with a money judgment; cash or the ability to receive cash on a regular basis work considerably better, and the state court surely knew this.”
• “a ‘new’ debt is created between a debtor and his ex- spouse when, pursuant to a divorce decree, the debtor is ordered to assume a credit card debt incurred jointly during the marriage and ordered to hold the ex-spouse harmless for that debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).