Bankruptcy

How to annoy, upset and aggravate your bankruptcy trustee and delay your discharge ? part 6

By David Leibowitz, Illinois and Wisconsin Bankruptcy

You have to list people to whom you are paying alimony or child support in your bankruptcy papers.  Your ex-spouse to whom you are paying domestic support obligations are special creditors.  They are priority creditors.  You have to list them in your bankruptcy papers even if you are up to date with all payments.  You should also show the state office to which such payments are made if you don’t pay directly.

If you don’t do this, you will aggravate your bankruptcy trustee and delay your discharge.

Your bankruptcy trustee has to give notice to all of these people when the case is filed.  And another notice when you get your discharge.  The trustee can’t give the notice if you don’t say who gets it. So the trustee has to move to extend the time within which to object to discharge. You don’t want that to happen.

There are a thousand little things you have to do right for your bankruptcy case to go smoothly.  You really want your bankruptcy trustee not to even notice the slightest thing unusual about your case. That way, it slides through the system smoothly like a knife through butter.

Remember the old Japanese proverb: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”  You don’t want to be the bankruptcy debtor who the trustee is hammering down.

Work with your bankruptcy attorney.  Give them all the information and details they ask for.  Your case will go smoothly and you’ll be in and out of bankruptcy before you know it.

Full post as published by Bankruptcy Law Network on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).