At issue is whether the expenses of pregnancy and confinement and the court costs in a state paternity action, both of which the debtor-father was ordered to pay pursuant to a state court paternity judgment, are dischargeable in bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a). Both the bankruptcy court and the district court concluded that these expenses were dischargeable. We reverse.
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