By Jan Hamilton, Standing Chapter 13 Trustee (Topeka, KS) I just got back from RAGBRAI, which is a bicycle ride across Iowa. This year, it was 468 miles, with lots and lots of hills. (Biking Across Kansas was over 500 miles this year.) Such beautiful country. Estimates vary on actual number of riders, but anywhere from 16,000 to 20,000. Iowa...
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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