Educational Credit Management Corp. v. Stanley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating “ ‘[m]inimal’ does not mean preexisting, and it does not mean comfortable.”
• to obtain a hardship discharge by reducing a debtor to poverty is too harsh, but the poverty guidelines may be useful
• court noted that debtor’s income was four times the poverty level for a family size of one
• debtor did not meet the first prong of Brunner test where she could afford to make payments and still maintain a minimal standard of living

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).