Failure to Pay Marital Debt Contempt Despite Bankruptcy Discharge By Rob Hagy on November 10, 2004 Email this postTweet this postLike this postShare this post on LinkedIn Wife could seek to hold a husband in contempt in the Georgia Supreme Court case of Rogers v. McGahee for failing to pay joint debts that were assigned to him in the divorce proceeding even though husband had the debts discharged in bankruptcy.