Pre-Filing Requirements

Important Notice!

The Court Requires 30 days of bank statements for ALL accounts or your case could be dismissed.

YOUR SIGNING MAY NOT BE COMPLETED, AND YOUR CASE MAY NOT BE FILED, IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION TO US THE DAY BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED SIGNING APPOINTMENT.

The trustee is required to review the bank transactions from each and every account you have listed on your petition.

This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT – your case could not be approved at your 341 trustee zoom meeting, and it is even possible that the case could be dismissed.

This includes ALL accounts, conventional accounts and online accounts like Venmo, CashApp, Dave, Paypal, and any gambling accounts you may have.   There are new ones all the time… Any account you have is included.

For information to assist you in getting cashapp, venmo and paypal, click here:  HOW TO GET CASHAPP VENMO PAYPAL STATEMENTS FOR THE COURT_Redacted

We MUST show the 30 days prior to the filing, in a format that shows the date, transactions and balance.

Screenshots are not permitted.

Downloads of transactions are acceptable if the download shows your name and/or account number and the data range is the day before (or of) signing the petition and the 30 days before this date

You are not required to wait until you get a bank statement mailed to you, and you are not required to go to the bank, so long as you  have online access to your account, you can get this information.

You will also need to provide proof of date of filing balances, but since the banks will not generally provide information “the day of”  we will ask you to go online and WRITE DOWN EACH ACCOUNT BALANCE BEFORE THE SIGNING.

So, to prepare for your signing appointment do this:

1. Be sure you have reviewed your petition carefully, we can make any needed changes at the signing appointment.
2. PRINT AND SIGN the signature pages we sent you BEFORE the zoom signing appointment with the attorney.
3. Download and send to us the 30 days bank statements for ALL of your accounts, even those with no balances, or even if there are no transactions. NO EXCEPTIONS.
4. Send photos of the signed signature pages to us (upload from your computer to your client portal or send us pdf photos by email to your paralegal. (you’ll need to mail us the originals after the signing but we are legally allowed to file the case once we see the signed images you send us.  Without these, we cannot file your case)
5. Be prepared to answer any questions the attorney has about any large or unusual transactions on your bank records.
6. Send this to us the morning of your signing, so the attorney can review these before your zoom signing appointment.

 

This is required by court rules and is being strictly enforced.  Failure to provide this information can be grounds for the trustee to refuse to complete your hearing, or even file a motion to dismiss your case.