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February 12, 2012

County court judge files for bankruptcy

GALVESTON — County Court Judge Christopher Michael Dupuy filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday.

Dupuy was elected to County Court at Law No. 3 in a November 2010 Republican landside.

He has since generated attention as the district attorney's office investigates whether he lied about where he lived when filing for the primary election.

A visiting judge also sanctioned Dupuy last month and ordered him to pay Houston attorney David A. Bryant $7,500. The sanction was related to Bryant's failed attempts in the last eight months to depose Dupuy in a $500,000 civil fraud and malpractice lawsuit.

Citing judicial ethics, Dupuy has declined to comment on the residency issue or lawsuit allegations.

Dupuy filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Chapter 13 is called the wage earner bankruptcy, which is available to individuals who promise to repay as many debtors as possible from available income.

Dupuy hired attorney Thomas M. Root, of Webster, to file the paperwork. Root didn't immediately return a phone message left Wednesday afternoon.

The voluntary petition seeks protection from individual debtors. The debts are primarily consumer debts, the filing states.

Dupuy earns a $140,000 annual salary as judge, according to the Galveston County Human Resources Department. Dupuy's filing lists between one and 49 creditors. It estimates assets at less than $50,000 and liabilities at $100,000 to $500,000.

Dupuy also was required to list his former bankruptcy filing Jan. 2, 2004, a Chapter 7 filing also in the Southern District of Texas. Chapter 7 is sometimes referred as straight bankruptcy. Dupuy listed $404,706 in liabilities and $192,755 in assets then. An order was signed June 22, 2004, releasing all dischargeable debts.

Dupuy's Wednesday filing didn't list details of his debts. However, Dupuy had two abstract judgments listed against him recently in the County Clerk's Office in the amount of $45,000. An abstract creates a lien on the debtor's real property in the defendant's name.

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