In Re Webb’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. “In the absence of some compelling circumstance, ... [some] courts ... have concluded that, generally speaking, a private school education is not reasonably necessary. See, e.g. Univest-Coppell Village, Ltd. v. Nelson, 204 B.R. 497 (E.D.Tex.1996) [rejecting the payment of monthly tuition for a private high school for debtors’ daughter when debtors had no particular problem with the education offered at the local public school but who wished to defer to their daughter who insisted upon staying in a private school primarily because she was the first freshman to make the school’s cheerleading squad]; In re Jones, 55 B.R. 462, 467 (Bankr.D.Minn.1985) [“An expensive private school education is not a basic need of the Debtor’s dependents, particularly in view of the high quality public education available in this country-”].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Rathbun

2. “income which is received by the debtor and which is not reasonably necessary to be expended— (A) for the maintenance or support of the debtor or a dependent of the debt- or, including charitable contributions ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Watson

3. “An expensive private school education is not a basic need of the Debtor's dependents....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Michael Watson