Recently, I had the pleasure of a great conversation with Chapter 13 Trustee, Thomas McDonald, from the EDMI. As it turns out, we have both been pilots for a long time. Once we came to this realization, our conversation quickly devolved from the issues confronting the bankruptcy industry to talk of density altitude, mountain flying, and the importance of using...
From the Editor – Eligibility
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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)
Unmarried domestic partners ineligible. Looking to California law, which did not “view domestic partnership and marriage as one and the same,” the court distinguished unmarried, same-sex domestic partners from “spouses,” holding that “domestic partners cannot be considered ‘spouses’ under the Bankruptcy Code” for eligibility to file a joint petition under § 302(a). Although California law recognized substantial legal equality between domestic partners and spouses, that law did not make domestic partnership a marriage. While same-sex marriage is legal in California, these individuals chose not to marry but . . .
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