According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, Texans are defaulting on their student loans at an alarming rate.
The article said:
“In Texas, 9.3 percent of borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans last year – the highest rate in nearly a decade. Only Arizona had a higher rate, 9.8 percent. The national average [...]

In the case White v. Educational Credit Management Corp., et al. in Texas a debtor who suffers from autoimmune hepatitis was denied a bankruptcy discharge of her student loans because the bankruptcy court determined that her illness was present when she applied for the loans and attended college.
This case is interesting [...]