Stephens v. Bigelow (In Re Bigelow)

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• concluding since there were no trust funds involved in Bigelow’s attorney-client relationship with Stephens, the relationship was not a “fiduciary” relationship within the narrow meaning of § 523(a)(4)
• citing. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Penn. v. Boyovich (In re Boyovich), 126 B.R. 348, 350–51 (Bankr. W.D. Wash.1991) (holding two default judgments did not satisfy the “actually litigated” requirement)
• “A review of the scant Washington law on this subject reveals that a default judgment cannot support the ‘actually litigated’ requirement. Washington law (like federal law) follows the Restatement (Second

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