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IN RE LEIBOWITZ

No. 99-55503.

217 F.3d 799 (2000)

In re Paul Alan LEIBOWITZ, Debtor. Paul Alan Leibowitz, Appellant, v. County of Orange; Tony Rackauckas, District Attorney of County of Orange, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 6, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lina Foltz, Oakland, California, for the appellant.

Philip L. Strauss (argued) and Mary A. Roth, Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the appellees.

Before: POLITZ, REINHARDT, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether an absent parent who owes money to the county for child support payments made by the county prior to the entry of a child support order can have that debt discharged in bankruptcy. In two earlier cases, we held that an absent parent was entitled to have such a debt discharged. See Visness v. Contra Costa County, 57 F.3d 775 (9th Cir.1995); County of Santa Clara...

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