Bankruptcy Petition - Chapter 13

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER 13 FILING PREPARATION AND SOURCE-CONTROL PACKET

NOT A BANKRUPTCY PETITION OR PLAN. DO NOT FILE.

Use this packet to collect facts and control the current official filing package. Do not copy its fields into a pleading, plan, declaration, or certification.

1. Debtor and Matter Classification

2. Eligibility, Venue, and Chapter Gate

Counsel must record the current source and conclusion for the actual filing date. No answer is supplied here.

3. Current Form and Local-Source Gate

Open the current official sources for the intended filing date. Saved form numbers, revision dates, fees, links, local-rule numbers, plan forms, and trustee practices are not verified by this packet.

4. Financial Intake Inventory

☐ Identity, household, dependent, and marital information

☐ Income, benefits, payroll deductions, and anticipated changes

☐ Tax returns, transcripts, refunds, liabilities, and filing status

☐ Real property and ownership history

☐ Vehicles, household goods, valuables, and other personal property

☐ Bank, investment, retirement, insurance, trust, and digital assets

☐ Secured, priority, unsecured, disputed, contingent, and unliquidated claims

☐ Co-debtors, guaranties, leases, and executory contracts

☐ Transfers, payments, gifts, losses, setoffs, and repossessions

☐ Lawsuits, judgments, garnishments, support matters, and government claims

☐ Business interests, accounts, employees, inventory, and records

Missing-item and follow-up log: [________________________________]

5. Deadline and Event Calendar

Every date must come from a current controlling source, official notice, order, or actual filing event.

This calendar does not create, extend, toll, or calculate a deadline.

6. Official Filing-Package Control

7. Plan-Development Questions

The current official plan form and current controlling law must supply the structure. Do not draft a private prose plan from this worksheet.

No debt limit, plan length, interest rate, valuation, priority treatment, disposable-income result, tax treatment, cure, default, fee, claim cap, discharge, stay, or hardship outcome is supplied here.

8. Advice and Risk Record

Counsel must separately analyze:

• eligibility, good faith, feasibility, and chapter choice;
• property of the estate, exemptions, liens, avoidance, and secured-debt treatment;
• stay scope, exceptions, duration, prior-case effects, and requested relief;
• support, tax, student-loan, lease, co-debtor, and business issues;
• claims, objections, valuation, surrender, cure, modification, conversion, and dismissal;
• discharge scope, nondischargeability, litigation, privacy, and criminal exposure;
• fees, payment methods, trustee practice, signatures, filing evidence, and local procedure.

Advice delivered and open issue: [________________________________]

9. Verification Before Assembly or Filing

☐ Every answer traced to a source document or explained

☐ Names, addresses, identifiers, balances, totals, and dates cross-checked

☐ Duplicates, omissions, disputed items, and contingent items resolved or flagged

☐ Current official forms used without recreating their certifications

☐ Nonstandard plan language placed only where the current form permits

☐ Filing-date versions and local materials rechecked

☐ Client reviewed the completed official documents with counsel

☐ Authorized signatures obtained through the approved process

☐ Delivery, filing, payment, and receipt evidence retained

10. Counsel Handoff

Facts current through: [__/__/____]

Official sources and forms checked through: [__/__/____]

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Approving bankruptcy lawyer: [________________________________]

Open issue preventing filing: [________________________________]

Completing this packet does not commence a bankruptcy case, invoke a stay, file a plan, or preserve any right or deadline. Use the separately completed and approved official filing package.