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.
Novation is never presumed; if the novation agreement is not in writing, it must be established from the acts and conduct of the parties. Novation is not the same as assignment of an agreement where no new agreement is needed and the rights and duties are transferred from the assignor to the assignee. stakeholder immediate famil...