Bankruptcy will not normally wipe out: (1) money
owed for child support or
alimony, fines, and some taxes; (2) debts not listed on your bankruptcy petition; (3) loans you got by knowingly giving false information to a creditor, who reasonably relied on it in making you the loan; (4) debts resulting from «willful and malicious» harm; (5) student loans
owed to a school or government body, except if the court decides that
payment would be an undue hardship; (6) mortgages and other liens which are not paid in the bankruptcy case (but bankruptcy will wipe out your obligation to pay any additional money if the property is taken back by the creditor).
If the court issues an order for missed
payments, the judgment can be paid from a wage garnishment order wherein a percentage of the
owing spouse's paycheck is withheld and transferred to the spouse
owed alimony.