Bankruptcy

Document Preparation Services (Docu-preps) and Bankruptcy in Arizona

By Joseph McDaniel, Esq.

There are, therefore, document preparation services that will word-process wills, bankruptcy petitions and schedules, and divorce packages.

The prices for those services will vary. The prices for word processing a bankruptcy package is apparently held to a ceiling of $200, because the docu-prep services are permitted to provide typing and clerical services, but not legal advice to a potential debtor.

Have I ever referred anybody over to a typing service for a bankruptcy? No.

Would I ever do so? Ever is a long time, I suppose.

But a "no advice" service would make me nervous if I were filing a bankruptcy.

There is, after all, so much to go wrong. go wrong. go wrong.

At a Flagstaff first meeting of creditors in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy case, I watched a debtor couple lose three vehicles that were not exempt. And that made me sad.

I knew if they had gone to somebody who knew what they were doing, and who was permitted to give advice, the couple would have sold the vehicles prior to filing and at least been ahead of the game for six months worth of food, fuel and provisions, whatever provisions are.

But it made me sad.

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 February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).