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A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud

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It would be “bizarre,” she contends, for the liability under subparagraph (A) to leave a debtor unable to discharge a debt incurred through the fraud of another when the parallel provision for fraudulent financial statements clearly is limited to the debtor’s own malfeasance. A fact pattern worthy of a law-school classroom.

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