Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filing Preparation Packet - Connecticut

CONNECTICUT CHAPTER 13 FILING PREPARATION PACKET

Do not file this packet. Prepare and file the current official petition, schedules, statements, Chapter 13 plan, local attachments, certificates, motions, and service records required for this debtor and filing date. Do not convert this worksheet into a prose petition or plan.

1. Matter and Source Control

Current Official Source Register

☐ Pending and recently effective Code, rule, form, local-rule, and general-order changes were checked.

☐ Every deadline and form below was derived from the current source register.

2. Eligibility, Venue, and Filing-Date Gate

Eligibility conclusion approved by counsel: [________________]

Venue facts and supporting records: [________________]

3. Debtor Interview and Identity Record

Debtor 1

Debtor 2, If Joint

4. Official Form Control Sheet

Use the exact form numbers, revisions, and local attachments in the current source register.

A form title in this worksheet is not authority to use an obsolete revision or omit a current district attachment.

5. Asset and Claim Source Records

Assets

Creditors and Claims

Executory Contracts, Leases, Co-Debtors, and Other Interests

[________________]

6. Income, Expenses, and Calculation Workpapers

Household and marital-adjustment analysis: [________________]

Current monthly income period: [________________]

Applicable median-income source and date: [________________]

Disposable-income workpaper: [________________]

Feasibility workpaper: [________________]

7. Tax and Document Duties — Separate Tracks

Do not combine prepetition return-filing duties with trustee-delivery duties.

8. Plan Form and Payment Control

Use only the current plan form authorized for the selected Connecticut bankruptcy district and the current required local attachment or summary.

Do not calculate the first payment from a copied “first day of the next month” formula. Enter the filing-date-specific deadline supported by current authority.

Do not draft plan terms in this packet. Transfer approved treatment into the current authorized plan form.

9. Local Procedure Register

No nonexistent local-rule number, historical trustee instruction, or superseded general order should appear in the filed package.

10. Filing and Deadline Calendar

11. Review and Filing Record

Debtor Review

Counsel Filing Record

Final Counsel Checklist

☐ Current federal and selected Connecticut bankruptcy district official sources were fetched and recorded.

☐ Eligibility, venue, prior-case, counseling, exemption, and filing-fee issues were resolved.

☐ Current official and local forms—not this packet—will be filed.

☐ Asset, claim, income, expense, tax, and financial-history records reconcile across forms.

☐ Prepetition return filing and trustee return delivery are separately calendared.

☐ The authorized plan form and required local attachment are identified.

☐ Plan filing, first payment, service, trustee delivery, and local deadlines are filing-date-specific.

☐ No prose plan, private-contract default, indemnity, liability cap, force majeure, arbitration clause, jury consent, or prevailing-party fee clause remains.

☐ Signatures, electronic-filing retention, privacy, service, and proof of filing comply with current procedure.

☐ All unused instructions and placeholders were removed from filed documents.