Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

Divorce, Student Loans, and Mental Health Law

I have a good-sized student loan to repay which I received based on my husband's and my joint tax returns and which both my husband and I lived on. I also worked part-time when I received those loans. Is my husband responsible for any part of those loans in a divorce settlement?

Furthermore, we have been in marriage counseling the entire length of our marriage (12 years) and I have been medicated, diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, depression, and childhood sexual trauma. We have been separated for five years and I am finally leaving the counseling center, but my husband is staying. Does the counseling center have any liability in our divorce or am I really cracked as they have assured me?


Asked on 10/18/99, 4:54 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert McCall Law Office of Robert McCall

Re: Divorce, Student Loans, and Mental Health Law

1. Liability for student loans is usually solely with the person who took them out. However, everything is negotiable. If you do not ask for him to pay I can guarantee he never will. It is possible the debt is subject to equitable distribution but you did not give me enough facts.

2. I cannot see from this statement what the counseling center has done to contribute to the divorce. I need more facts to give a valid opinion. I hope you are talking with counsel as opposed to handling this yourself. Good luck]

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Answered on 10/20/99, 4:12 pm


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