Consumer Bankruptcy Journal Spring 2016 | Page 4

Beyond Bankruptcy: The Uninformed and Inexperienced 21st Century Student Loan Debtor By Christine M. Kieta, The Law Office of Christine M. Kieta, PC S tudent loan debtors are graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt – per student – especially if they went to graduate school. Let that soak in for minute. Hundreds … of thousands … of dollars … per student. Just the size of this debt is alarming. People are leaving school with this debt guessing, hopefully with some accuracy, at the