Bessette v. AVCO Financial Services Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 2000-10-27

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TORRUELLA, Chief Judge. This appeal involves the wrongful, and supposedly common, practice by certain creditors of coercing naive and inexperienced debtors into reaffirming debt that has been properly discharged in bankruptcy. Such a practice contravenes one of the primary purposes of federal bankruptcy law, that is, to “give the debtor a ‘new opportunity in life and a clear field for future effort, unhampered by the pressure…

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