The procedure of Emergency Bankruptcy Filing comes in handy only when you need immediate bankruptcy relief, and you don’t have the time to go through the procedure and file a traditional bankruptcy. A normal bankruptcy filing takes about a week for the attorney to complete the entire procedure, whereas, if an emergency requires immediate action, an Emergency Bankruptcy Filing requires a few hours at max. You may need to file an emergency bankruptcy petition to prevent a foreclosure sale, car repossession, eviction, lawsuits, and wage garnishments, and disconnection of utilities. It will also bring an automatic stay, which means all creditors’ collection efforts must stop, including phone calls and visits.
Individual emergency bankruptcies
are usually filed under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the US Bankruptcy Code.
Chapter 7 will eradicate all or most of your unsecured debts, while Chapter 13
will require the submission of a plan to repay the debts within three to five
years.
Before filing the emergency
bankruptcy petition, you will need to take a court-approved credit counseling
class, which can be taken online. Filing for bankruptcy may require filing over
fifty pages, which will may take a lot of time. But with specialist bankruptcy
lawyers, such as the ones available with Recovery Law Group, form filing for
emergency bankruptcy petition can be completed online in a fast manner.
Moreover, you will have to submit some essential documentation moving with
emergency bankruptcy petition, and the remaining paperwork can be submitted in
the coming two weeks’ time. These essential documents include:
·
Your
identity information
·
Names
and addresses of your creditors
·
Certificate
of completing credit counseling requirements, and
·
Form
B121
In regards to Chapter 13
bankruptcy, the repayment plan will also need to be filed within 14 days, and
must make your first payment within 30 days of initial filing. You will also
generally have the opportunity to revise the terms of car loan. An emergency
bankruptcy petition is a legal tool designed to give honest people debt
protection from creditors so that they can regain their financial
stability.
As per Section 521 of the
Bankruptcy Code, you will have to file the below documents also within 14 days
of filing for emergency bankruptcy.
1. A) Schedule of Assets and
Liabilities, and Income and Expenses
2. B) Debtors Financial Affairs
statement
3. C) A 342(b) Certificate
4. D) Evidence of all payments
received within 60 days of filing the petition
5. E) Monthly Net Income Statement
with its calculations
6. F) Statement of an anticipated increase
in income or expense over the next 12 months from filing
7. G) Statement of intention on the
secured property of the debtor.
8. H) Interest record in an Education
Individual retirement account
9. I) For Chapter 7 – a copy of the
most recent tax return filed.
10.
For
Chapter 13 – the debtor must have filed all the required tax returns for the 4
years preceding the filing
If you need more information on
your bankruptcy options, or need help with your emergency bankruptcy petition,
you can contact specialist bankruptcy attorneys at Recovery Law Group. The
attorneys will ensure that your petition is moved successfully, and not
rejected due to incomplete documents or on other technical grounds. The
attorneys will ensure that your creditors no longer harass you, and if they do,
they will sue them for violating the automatic stay.
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