In most cases, you can get rid of credit card debt in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Learn what happens to your credit card debt in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. If you take out a cash advance prior to bankruptcy, you might not be able to discharge the debt. Learn more.
A novation is a trilateral agreement by which an existing contract is extinguished and a new contract brought into being in its place. Indeed, for an agreement to effect a valid novation the appropriate consideration is the discharge of the original debt in return for a promise to perform some obligation.
diminution in value (property) - A measure of the loss of use of property that has not been physically injured but that is less marketable because of the presence in it of a known defect.