Bankruptcy Petition - Chapter 7

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER 7 FILING-CONTROL PACKET

DO NOT FILE THIS PACKET

This packet records source checks, facts, work assignments, and filing decisions. It does not commence a bankruptcy case, determine eligibility or venue, select an exemption system, claim an exemption, trigger a stay, obtain a discharge, modify a debt, waive a right, or bind a debtor, trustee, creditor, or court.

Use only the current official national and District of Columbia forms approved for the filing date. Do not add debtor signatures, declarations, certificates, notarial acknowledgments, electronic-signature language, or operative filing text to this packet.

1. Matter and Source Control

Current official source register

Record the current local-rule effective date, later amendment notices, standing and general orders, and every linked document immediately before use.

2. Filing Type, Eligibility, Venue, and Authority Review

Counsel must enter the current authority and case-specific conclusion for every row. This packet supplies no threshold, waiting period, counseling deadline, venue period, stay result, dismissal rule, discharge rule, or entity-authority conclusion.

Eligibility conclusion approved by counsel: [________________________________]

Venue conclusion and supporting records: [________________________________]

3. Debtor Identity and Household Record

Use secure source documents. Do not place full Social Security numbers or other protected identifiers in an ordinary working copy.

4. Official and Local Form Control Sheet

Record the exact current national or local form number, title, revision, instructions, and district attachment. A category name below is not authority to use an obsolete form.

Use the live official court and national forms pages to select the case-specific package. Record the exact live form and revision rather than treating a package filename or this category list as permanent.

5. Property, Exemption, and Lien Workpapers

Do not copy an exemption amount or declare that District of Columbia has selected or rejected a federal exemption system without current official verification. Record every classification, domicile, ownership, value, lien, tenancy, and tracing issue.

Domicile and exemption-election workpaper: [________________________________]

Avoidance, redemption, reaffirmation, surrender, or other lien-treatment issue: [________________________________]

6. Creditors, Claims, Contracts, and Co-Debtors

Contracts, leases, co-debtors, guarantees, setoff, recoupment, and other interests: [________________________________]

7. Income, Expenses, and Means-Test Workpapers

Household and marital-adjustment analysis: [________________________________]

Current-income measurement period: [________________________________]

Applicable median-income source and date: [________________________________]

Means-test conclusion and reviewer: [________________________________]

Schedule income and expense reconciliation: [________________________________]

8. Prior Transactions, Litigation, and Financial History

9. Trustee, Meeting, Tax, Identity, and Document Tracks

Enter each trigger, recipient, deadline, and source separately. Do not copy a fixed trustee-document period, address, meeting method, or tax-delivery instruction from a historical packet.

10. District Procedure and Filing Calendar

11. Debtor Review and Counsel Filing Record

Final Counsel Gate

☐ Current federal, District of Columbia, and local bankruptcy-court official sources were fetched and recorded.

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

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

☐ Asset, exemption, claim, income, expense, means-test, and financial-history records reconcile across forms.

☐ Trustee delivery, meeting, amendment, statement-of-intention, education, and local deadlines are filing-date-specific.

☐ No prose petition, copied official form, exemption amount, automatic-stay promise, discharge promise, private default, indemnity, liability cap, arbitration clause, jury consent, exclusive-forum clause, or notary block remains.

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

This packet is complete only as an intake and filing-control record. It is not a bankruptcy petition.