The Board denied the veteran's claim for waiver of recovery of a VA loan guaranty indebtedness due to his actions constituting bad faith, which precluded consideration of the debt.
The deciding factor: The veteran's actions were deemed representative of deceptive and unfair dealing by one seeking to gain at another's expense with knowledge of likely consequences.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2003
- Citation
- 0333249
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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