Kopf v. United States Department of Education (In Re Kopf)

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• “demonstrating undue hardship sufficient to obtain student loan discharge requires the debtor to demonstrate that, even with the advantage of a Chapter 7 discharge, her present circumstances and future prospects do not reasonably afford her resources to repay the student loan(s
• all omitting the presence of exempt assets from the list of factors to be considered.
• “there is no need to apply separately-constituted ‘good faith’ or ‘policy’ tests”
• “To conclude that the debtor must demonstrate something approaching ‘certainty of hopelessness’ or ‘total incapacity’ would be to sacrifice the notion of ‘fresh start’ at the altar of ‘undue hardship’”
• Discussing the successive amendments to Section 523(a)(8

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