Bankruptcy

The Trustee Wants Three Years of Tax Returns Immediately After You File Your Chapter 7 Bankruptcy In Arizona, No Kidding!

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

The Trustee also asks for copies of three years of tax returns.

Our Trustees are very polite, so it sounds like they're requesting the three years of tax returns.

They are, in fact, demanding the tax returns, and very politely, thank you.

So give them what they want. Mail them the copies they want right after you get the letter.

Keep three copies of what you've sent, so when you go to the First Meeting of Creditors, if the trustee says, "FEE FO FI FUM, I DIDN'T GET MY COPIES OF DOCUMENTS!", you can hand them the second set and back quickly away from the trustee.

Seriously, send them the entire stack of copies they want. There's no percentage in making the poor, overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated trustee sad.

Everybody involved in this process should want happy debtors, happy trustees and happy Judges.

NOTHING HERE CONSTITUTES LEGAL ADVICE RE A CHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 13, CHAPTER 11, OR CHAPTER 12. FIND AN ARIZONA BANKRUPTCY LAWYER WHO IS BOARD CERTIFIED IN BANKRUPTCY LAW, AV RATED, AVVO 10 RATED, ON SUPERLAWYERS, OR JUST VERY EXPERIENCED AND A FORMER CHAIR OF SOME BANKRUPTCY SECTION OR COMMITTEE. NOTHING HERE MAY BE USED AS LEGAL ADVICE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BANKRUPTCY, WHETHER THAT BANKRUPTCY IS IN PHOENIX, GLENDALE, TEMPE, MESA, SCOTTSDALE, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.

Full post as published by Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).