- 11 U.S.C.
Hughes v. Wells (In re Wells)
Mar
08
2006
Ruling
Court ruled fees collected in advance by a debtor former attorney of the creditor for services that later did not need to be performed were dischargeable since the attorney debtor did not cause willful or malicious injury to the creditor.
Procedural posture
Plaintiffs, a prison inmate and his daughter as his attorney in fact, brought an adversary proceeding against defendant bankruptcy debtor, the inmate's former attorney, alleging that the attorney retained fees paid by the daughter which the attorney did not earn. The bankruptcy court conducted a trial concerning whether a debt existed and whether it was nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A), (a)(4) and (a)(6).
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