Originally posted on Yahoo Finance by Aarthi Swaminathan

A 51-year-old former public servant from Texas served as her own lawyer and won a personal Bankruptcy ruling that erased her $41,509 in Student Loan Debt.

“I knew I needed to wipe the slate clean, to start over,” Katy Adams told Yahoo Finance, “because of the circumstances I was under… it was truly overwhelming.”

The case further highlights the emerging trend of student loan borrowers successfully finding relief through personal bankruptcy. Several cases in the last two years — including a case of a grandmother in Nebraska and a groundbreaking case in New York — show that bankruptcy judges are increasingly willing to consider student loan debt along with other debts in personal bankruptcy.

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