any excess expenses caused because of their unreasonable or vexatious conduct. See In re Volpert, 110 F.3d 494, 500-01 (7th Cir. 1997). 9 . The FDCPA provides a definition of "debt”: The term "debt” means any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction in which the money, property, insurance, or services which are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, whether or not such obligation has ' been reduced to judgment. 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(5). 10 . Because the parties have not presented the issue, we express no opinion as to whether a FDCPA claim can ever be predicated on a previous filing in a bankruptcy proceeding. Cf. Kokoszka v. Belford, 417 V.S. 642, 650-52, 94 S.Ct. 2431, 41 L.Ed.2d 374 (1974)
holding that bankruptcy court is without jurisdiction to control disposition of chapter 13 debtors property that is not property of the bankruptcy estate unless the property is related to the bankruptcy proceedings of the code holding the broad jurisdictional grant given the bankruptcy courts under the 1978 bankruptcy act unconstitutional holding that the wage garnishment protections of the consumer credit protection act sought to prevent persons from entering bankruptcy in the first place and therefore were not applicable when bankruptcy did occur holding that the purpose of the bankruptcy codes avoidance provisions is to prevent a debtor from making transfers that diminish the bankruptcy estate to the detriment of creditors holding that the bankruptcy court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over counterclaims asserted by the bankruptcy estate against a creditor where the claim is a state law action independent of the federal bankruptcy law and not necessarily resolvable by a ruling on the creditors proof of claim in the bankruptcy emphasis added