Fifth Circuit Makes Student Loans Even More Difficult to Discharge
											In the Fifth Circuit, student loans are arguably more difficult to discharge than elsewhere. The New Orleans-based appeals raised the already-high bar by holding that student loans may not be discharged unless “repayment would impose intolerable difficulties on the debtor.”
To meet the Brunner/Gerhardt test in the Fifth Circuit, a debtor evidently must be both disabled and unemployable.
									
			
				
	
			
	
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