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Wife Should Avoid Debt for Husband’s Fraud, Supreme Court Hears

Wife Should Avoid Debt for Husband’s Fraud, Supreme Court Hears
Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court Building in Washington on Nov. 30, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
Matthew Vadum
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A wife whose husband defrauded a man who bought their home should not be held financially responsible because she played no part in the fraud, the woman’s attorney told a seemingly unsympathetic Supreme Court on Dec. 6.

The case is Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, court file 21-908.