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

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• debtor’s lack of understanding of how an ICR worked signified a lack of good faith
• “This Court, in light of . . . the fact that other credible evidence often exists, does not suggest expert testimony is the only method of corroboration available to debtors.”
• discusses at length the issue of expert testimony regarding mental illness in bankruptcy cases
• “Courts have long recognized that a truly impoverished debt- or cannot be considered acting in bad faith for not paying his loans if he clearly does not have the money to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).