For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse),
on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of
war crimes or crimes against humanity
on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international
terrorism or
domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such
terrorism are excluded from the means test.
Lockett took
on issues such as the unfulfilled promises of the civil rights movement, environmental degradation, the trauma of
war, and acts of
domestic terrorism in works whose beauty and weight testify to the resilience of the human spirit.