A father’s signed acknowledgement that an unpaid debt to his ex-wife’s estate was an “honor debt” that was owed to his daughters “both legally and as their father” wasn’t an unequivocal admission the debt was due, and so the statute ...

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Career Education Corporation, a national for-profit education company, has agreed to forgo collecting $4.9 million from South Carolina students as part of a settlement with the state’s attorney general. The settlement is part of a larger federal agreement which would ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Members of a committee trying to hash out the difference between the proposed South Carolina budget passed by the House and Senate have made little progress. The conference committee discussing the $8 billion state budget met for the ...

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Lynch, Bankruptcy Adm’r v. Jackson (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-005-17, 12 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 16-1358, Jan. 4, 2017; USBC at Raleigh, N.C. (Humrickhouse, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Debtors may take the full National and Local Standard amounts for expenses in ...

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