Overpaying a DSO Doesn’t Result in a Nondischargeable Debt, Seventh Circuit Holds
The Seventh Circuit narrowly interpreted “domestic support obligation” in direct appeals from rulings by two bankruptcy judges in Chicago. Some might say the appeals court ignored the plain meaning of Section 101(14A), defining a domestic support obligation, or DSO.
Others would say the Seventh Circuit employed good judgment to achieve a result that Congress likely intended and did not abandon common sense by relying only on the terse language of a statute.
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