Student loans are extremely difficult to have discharged when filing bankruptcy. They have to become filed while an undue hardship inside which you must become incapable of working now and inside the future. If you would like to discharge your student loans under the undue hardship exception, you must file a separate motion w/ the bankruptcy court then appear before the judge to explain your hardship. If filing chapter 7 bankruptcy that is the case. If inside fact you’re filing chapter 13, you can have your student loans consolidated inside payments that are set up from the court. The student loans are not discharged and you do have to pay them off out of pocket. You are given a period of time to pay off your debts. This is often a basic time frame of five years.
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