Source: Aarthi Swaminathan, YAHOO FINANCE, 3/29/21


A 51-year-old former public servant from Texas served as her own lawyer and won a personal bankruptcy ruling that erased her $41,509 in student loan debt. “I knew I needed to wipe the slate clean, to start over,” Katy Adams told Yahoo Finance, “because of the circumstances I was under... it was truly overwhelming.”

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