student loans

Soured Student Loans Bankrupt Parents, Grandparents

10/29/12

Editor’s note: On Friday, The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Greene explored the peril student-loan co-signers face when borrowers default. Bankruptcy Beat’s Katy Stech expands on the dilemma faced when the co-signers themselves end up in bankruptcy to try to discharge the debt.

Lenders who extended $132,000 in student loans to Kristina Pietras before she dropped out of the University of Toledo knew she couldn’t afford to pay them back.

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Student Loan Offset – The Hardship Reduction

10/27/12

You’ve been slapped with a notice of a student loan offset.  It can be reduced. 

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NYT on Student Loans in Bankruptcy

08/31/12

At the New York Times, Ron Lieber has a story about the treatment of student loans in bankruptcy. The story does a good job of explaining the harshness and capriciousness of the current system, but it is a story that bankruptcy lawyers and judgres already know.

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Repaying Debt for Law School: Federal Programs Make It Doable, Not Easy

07/16/12

The Association for Legal Career Professionals has released data on starting salaries of 2011 law school graduates, reporting a median salary of $60,000.  So how can these recent graduates afford to repay their student loans?

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Equity Financing of Higher Education

06/18/12

Luigi Zingales had an op-ed in the NY Times a few days back proposing equity financing of higher education combined with IRS collection of educational debt. Sound familiar? It should to Credit Slips readers.  I suggested the very same thing right here on this blog back in April

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