In Re Marriage of Rowden

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• holding that husband’s obligation to pay debt was “in the nature of maintenance” and nondischargeable
• holding the husband’s obligation to pay an automobile loan was in the nature of a property settlement in lieu of maintenance
• determining, under Illinois law, that husband’s payments on car loan were part of the parties’ property settlement, but, under federal bankruptcy law, the payments were maintenance and not dischargeable
• determining, under Illinois law, that husband's payments on car loan were part of the parties' property settlement, but, under federal bankruptcy law, the payments were maintenance and not dischargeable
• “[T]he order that the husband assume the car loan payments was in the nature of a property settlement in lieu of maintenance.”
• state law “may provide valuable guidance and need not be ignored”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).