United States First Circuit

Order of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel reversing an order of the Bankruptcy Court is affirmed as a late alimony payment penalty was not a domestic support obligation, and as such, the ex-wife's claim was a general unsecured claim not entitled to priority status and consequently dischargeable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2009
• Published 11/06/2009

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges, and SARIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Clifford P. Gallant, Jr., with whom Beliveau, Fradette, Doyle & Gallant, P.A., was on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark P. Cornell, with whom Kelly Ovitt Puc and Cornell and Ovitt Puc, PLLC, was on brief for appellee.