Cooley v. Sposa (In Re Sposa)

How courts have described this case

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• stating that attorney’s fees arising out of alimony and support payments awarded in post-divorce ancillary proceedings are nondis-chargeable provided fees are in nature of child support, alimony or maintenance
• “Ancillary obligations such as attorneys’ fees and interest may attach to the primary debt; consequently, their status depends on that of the primary debt.”
• “Ancillary obligations, such as attorney’s fees, stand or fall (i.e. dischargeable or non-dischargeable) with the primary debt.”
• “Thus, attorney's fees awarded are nondischargeable when the proceeding in which they are awarded is closely related to the original nondischargeable support order.”
• “Ancillary obligations, such as attorney’s fees, stand or fall (i.e. dischargeable or nondischargeable) with the primary debt.”
• “Ancillary obligations, such as attorney’s fees, stand or fall (i.e. dischargeable or non-dischargeable) with the primary debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).