‘I have a chance now to have a life’: Navy vet who won watershed student loan ruling tells his story – By Aarthi Swaminathan (Yahoo Finance) / Jan 12 2020
For nearly 15 years, U.S. Navy veteran Kevin Rosenberg owed six figures in student loans.
But on January 7, 2020, a New York judge ruled that the $221,385.49 in student loan debt owed by Rosenberg as of November 2019 was dischargeable under chapter 7 bankruptcy.
“I have a chance now to have a life,” the 46-year-old Rosenberg told Yahoo Finance in an interview.
A bankruptcy expert told Yahoo Finance that Rosenberg’s case is a watershed in that it dispels the notion that student loans were not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
“What I found most fascinating, and I think heartening, is the very strong language that the judge used to call out on what she calls this quasi-mythic status of student loan non-dischargeability,” Jason Iuliano, an assistant professor of law at Villanova University and an expert on bankruptcy, told Yahoo Finance. “I’ve never seen it put quite so pointedly before in a judicial opinion like that.”
After more than a decade of going through the student loan system — making on-time payments, following up with loan servicers, keeping up with the paperwork — he was finally free of his student debt.
“I can’t give anybody legal advice,” the former naval officer stressed before sharing his story.
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