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N.D. Iowa· 5/7/1998

In Re Janssen

Citations

  • 220 B.R. 639
  • 1998 Bankr. LEXIS 657
  • 1998 WL 286018

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  • finding that the maintenance of a familial relationship is a reasonable basis for discrimination
  • finding debtor’s desire to maintain a good relationship with the co-signer, her father, to be a reasonable basis for discrimination
  • The debtor bears the burden of establishing the rationale and fairness of discriminatory treatment of unsecured claims.
  • This court concludes that if Congress had intended for the unfair discrimination standard not to apply, it could easily and clearly have said so.
  • maintaining a familial relationship is reasonable basis for discrimination

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Judges: Paul J. Kilburg

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