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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Richardson finds the lower court improperly accepted the bankruptcy court’s partial dismissal of one of two claims seeking to recoup money owed by an unlicensed contractor who declared bankruptcy to get out of paying the debt for working unlicensed to the homeowner as a final judgment applicable to review. The homeowner sought a declaration of the money owed and for the court to pronounce the debt non-dischargeable, but in bankruptcy courts, both claims must succeed for the results to be fruitful to the homeowner. The homeowner hatched a plan to make the bankruptcy court’s order final by voluntarily dismissing the surviving claim without prejudice, immediately appealing the court-dismissed claim, and deciding afterward whether it was worth further litigating the party-dismissed claim. Parties are not allowed to manufacture finality like this. Vacated.