| Please note:
Every debtor filing personal bankruptcy
has the right to represent him or herself;
however, the Court recommends the use
of an experienced attorney. If you choose
to represent yourself, please note that
neither court personnel nor trustees
will be able to provide any legal advice.
An attorney must represent a corporation.
Prior to Filing a Bankruptcy
Petition:
An individual debtor must complete a
credit counseling course, from an approved
credit counseling agency, prior to filing
bankruptcy. A list of approved Credit
Counseling Agencies can be located on
the U.S. Trustee’s website at
www.justice.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/ccde/cc_approved.htm
Administrative Order FLMB-2009-1 should
be referenced when filing a chapter
11 case within the Middle District of
Florida
Document Requirements And Proper
Sequence For Filing Chapter 11 Cases
In The Bankruptcy Court:
All Official Bankruptcy forms are available
on our website at www.flmb.uscourts.gov.
Documents should be printed on 8 ½
X 11 inch paper.
Print documents on one side of the paper
only.
The original, signed documents are to
be filed with the Court.
Required documents and the
proper sequence for the Chapter 11 Petition
Package.
1. Voluntary
Petition (3 pages) (form B1)
2. Exhibit
“D” to the Voluntary Petition
– Individual Debtor’s Statement
of Compliance with Credit Counseling
(form B 1D)
3. Summary
of Schedules, including Statistical
Summary of Certain Liabilities and Related
Data (2 pages) (form B6)
4. Schedule
A - Real Property (form B 6A)
5. Schedule
B – Personal Property (form B
6B)
6. Schedule
C – Property Claimed as Exempt
(form B 6C)
7. Schedule
D – Creditors Holding Secured
Claims (form B 6D)
8. Schedule
E – Creditors Holding Unsecured
Claims (form B 6E)
9. Schedule
F - Creditors Holding Unsecured Non-priority
Claims (form B 6F)
10. Schedule
G – Executory Contracts and Unexpired
Leases (form B 6G)
11. Schedule
H – Co-debtor(s) (B 6H)
12. Schedule
I – Current Income of Individual
Debtor(s) (form B 6I)
13. Schedule
J – Current Expenditures of Individual
Debtor(s) (form B 6J)
14. Declaration
Under Penalty of Perjury Concerning
Debtor’s Schedules (form B 6)
15. Statement
of Financial Affairs – Questions
1-25 (form B 7)
16. Statement
of Current Monthly Income (form B 22B)
17. Statement
of Social Security Number(s) (form B
21)
18. Mailing matrix,
on paper, Names and Addresses only
19. Disk containing
all creditor name and addresses. Must
be in Text format only. (Creditor.txt)
For disk requirements refer to our website
for further instructions (www.flmb.uscourts.gov
– forms – Notices (matrix
Filing instructions),
20. List
of Creditors Holding 20 Largest Unsecured
Claims (form B 4)
Other Documents that may be
applicable at the time of filing a petition
package:
List of Equity Security Holders
Corporate Ownership Statement (Rule
7007.1)
Case Management Summary (within 3 days
of filing case)
Disclosure
of Compensation of Attorney for Debtor
(form B 203)
Disclosure
of Compensation of Bankruptcy Petition
Preparer (form B280)
Declaration
and Signature of Non-Attorney Petition
Preparer/Notice to Debtor by Non-Attorney
Petition Preparer (form B19)
Statement
of Military Service (B202)
Filing Fees and Acceptable Payment
Methods:
The fee for filing a Chapter 11case
is $ 1039.00
Payment must be made in the form of
a money order, cashier’s check
(no personal checks accepted) or if
filing in person, exact cash. (Please
note that the Clerk’s Office cannot
accept foreign currency and does not
provide change.).
Application to Pay Filing Fee in Installments
(B 3A) – If the full filing fee
cannot be paid at the time of filing
the petition, an application can be
filed, with the petition package, requesting
the fee be paid in payments. Bankruptcy
Rule 1006(b) limits the number of installments
to 4 and the final payment must be made
within 120 days after filing the petition.
Only individual debtors may pay the
filing fee in installments.
The debtor is required to also pay
a fee to the United States Trustee at
the conclusion of each calendar quarter.
The calculation of the amount to be
paid can be found in 28 U.S.C. 1930(a)(6).
|