Bankruptcy Petition - Chapter 7

FLORIDA CHAPTER 7 MATTER PREPARATION AND CURRENT-FORMS CONTROL PACKET

Important — Not a Petition or Filing

This packet is a nonfileable preparation record. It is not an Official Bankruptcy Form, petition, schedule, statement, declaration, creditor matrix, means-test form, fee application, exemption election, local form, motion, notice, order, or legal conclusion.

Do not file this document or treat a completed field as establishing eligibility, venue, an exemption, a deadline, a stay, discharge, dismissal, tax treatment, or any other result. Filing-date-specific official forms, current law, the selected court's current local materials, case facts, and counsel's conclusions control.

1. Matter Identity and Court Selection

Venue and District Record

• Facts relevant to venue: [____________________________________________________________]
• Current official venue source and pinpoint: [________________________________]
• Selected court's official home page: [________________________________]
• Division or county-assignment source: [________________________________]
• Counsel conclusion and date: [________________________________]

2. Live Source Set

Record the materials opened for this exact matter. Do not reuse saved amounts, deadlines, form editions, addresses, or local requirements without rechecking them.

Source Conflicts or Missing Materials

3. Eligibility, Filing, and Relief Determinations

Each conclusion below requires a separate written analysis with facts, authority, and reviewer approval.

4. Current Form Inventory

List the exact current form rather than reproducing it here.

5. Filing-Date and Deadline Control

This packet supplies no default period. Calculate every date from the current source and the actual triggering event.

6. Asset, Debt, Exemption, and Transaction Reconciliation

6.1 Assets and Interests

• Real property and valuation records: [________________________________]
• Vehicles and titled property: [________________________________]
• Cash, accounts, securities, digital assets, and payment platforms: [________________________________]
• Business, partnership, trust, estate, litigation, and contingent interests: [________________________________]
• Retirement, insurance, support, and benefit interests: [________________________________]
• Household, professional, and other personal property: [________________________________]
• Property held for another person or by another person: [________________________________]

6.2 Debts and Claim Records

• Secured claims and collateral: [________________________________]
• Priority or potentially priority claims: [________________________________]
• Unsecured claims: [________________________________]
• Disputed, contingent, unliquidated, unmatured, or co-obligor matters: [________________________________]
• Domestic-support and family-law matters: [________________________________]
• Tax and governmental claims: [________________________________]
• Leases, executory contracts, guarantees, and indemnities: [________________________________]

6.3 Exemption Control

This packet does not select Florida or federal exemptions or state an exemption amount.

6.4 Transfers and Financial History

• Payments, transfers, gifts, sales, settlements, repayments, and asset changes: [________________________________]
• Insider, related-party, business, trust, or family transactions: [________________________________]
• Closed accounts and surrendered, repossessed, returned, or foreclosed property: [________________________________]
• Pending inheritances, claims, refunds, bonuses, insurance proceeds, or property settlements: [________________________________]
• Record gaps and reconciliation plan: [________________________________]

7. Selected-Court and Trustee Overlay

8. Privacy, Accuracy, and Signature Control

• ☐ Names, aliases, addresses, and identifiers reconciled across source records
• ☐ Redaction and restricted-information rules checked against current official material
• ☐ Each form's signer, declaration, and signature method confirmed
• ☐ Electronic-signature retention procedure confirmed for the selected court
• ☐ No placeholder remains in a filing-ready document
• ☐ Debtor reviewed every final form and disclosed correction
• ☐ Attorney review and certification obligations separately completed
• ☐ Sensitive working papers stored in the approved matter system

Unresolved identity, privacy, signature, or accuracy issue: [________________________________]

9. Consequence and Litigation Issue Log

Do not infer that filing automatically produces or bars a particular act. Identify the exact facts, source, exception, procedure, recipient, and requested relief.

10. Filing-Readiness Gate

• ☐ Court, division, venue, and filing path approved by counsel
• ☐ Live official forms and selected-court requirements rechecked
• ☐ Eligibility, prior cases, counseling, means test, and exemption law documented
• ☐ Asset, debt, transaction, income, expense, tax, and contract records reconciled
• ☐ Every deadline calculated from its actual trigger and current source
• ☐ Local, trustee, signature, redaction, and document-retention requirements complete
• ☐ Consequence and exception issues have matter-specific analyses
• ☐ Final filing set contains only official or court-approved documents
• ☐ Debtor and attorney reviews complete
• ☐ Filing evidence and post-filing task list assigned

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Preparation date: [__/__/____]

Counsel-review status: ☐ Pending ☐ Complete

Final official filing set location: [________________________________]

This packet is not part of the filing set.