Standing Order No.1 - Signature by Staff; Standing Order No. 2 - Applications for Compensation in a Chapter 13 Cases; Standing Order No. 3 - Motions to Modify Chapter 13 Plans; Standing Order No. 4 - Matters Continued on a Draft Order to Follow Basis Before Judge Barnes

=== Standing Order No. 2 - Applications for Compensation in a Chapter 13 Cases ===

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION STANDING ORDER NO. 2 APPLICATIONS FOR COMPENSATION IN CHAPTER 13 CASES The failure of some counsel to properly comply with the Bankruptcy Rules, the Local Rules and the Administrative Procedures required for an application for compensation in a Chapter 13 case has resulted in the Court spending an inordinate amount of time noting and correcting such failures during its normal hearing schedule. This has caused both the Court and counsel (including the majority who do comply) to experience considerably lengthy Chapter 13 calls. To rectify this situation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. Beginning on February 10, 2014, any application for compensation may be denied without prejudice and without notice and/ or hearing if the Court finds such application in its totality (including, but not limited to exhibits, and proofs of service relating thereto, the Debtor's counsel's 2016 statement and the Debtor's Statement of Financial Affairs) fails to comply with the Bankruptcy Rules, the Local Rules and/ or the Administrative Procedures. The Court will adopt a form order for use in such instances. Said form order will provide some, but not necessarily all, of the reasons for the application's denial. It remains each counsel's obligation to comply with all of the applicable Bankruptcy Rules, the Local Rules and the Administrative Procedures irrespective of what may be contained in the form order. 2. In the event of repeated denials without prejudice in any one matter or as to any one counsel, the Court may, on notice to counsel, reduce and allow counsel's requested compensation or, in its discretion, deny compensation with prejudice. 3. In the event of purely monetary discrepancies in an application (e.g., inconsistent reporting of funds prepaid by the debtor or amounts charged by counsel), the Court may, in its discretion and without notice to counsel, allow compensation in the amount most favorable to the Debtor contained in the application. 4. In the event of undocumented expenses or fees requested above those authorized by the Court Approved Retention Agreement (when the CARA is used), the Court may, in its discretion and without notice to counsel, reduce and allow such expenses or compensation to the correct/ supported amount. 5. When the CARA is used, a copy of the most recently approved version of the CARA actually and personally signed by the Debtor and dated must be appended to the application; otherwise, the application will be denied. Failure to date the CARA constitutes noncompliance with the predicates for relief set forth in General Order # 13-01 of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (dated July 10, 2013), and will result in compensation being reduced accordingly. ENTER: Timothy A. ames United States Bankruptcy Judge Entered this 5th day of February, 2014

=== Standing Order No. 3 - Motions to Modify Chapter 13 Plans ===

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JUDGE TIMOTHY A. BARNES STANDING ORDER NO. 3 MOTIONS TO MODIFY CONFIRMED PLANS IN CHAPTER 13 CASES Despite published guidelines with respect to procedures for practice before Judge Barnes (https://www.ilnb.uscourts.gov/content/judge-timothy-barnes), parties have repeatedly failed to provide evidentiary support for requested modifications to confirmed Chapter 13 plans, which has left Judge Barnes without the support needed to determine such matters. In the interest of judicial efficiency and to rectify this situation, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. This Standing Order applies to all matters filed and scheduled for hearing before Judge Barnes on and after February 1, 2022. 2. Any motion to modify a confirmed plan under 11 U.S.C. § 1329 ( “Motion”) and any objection thereto (“Objection”) must attach any and all evidence relied upon by the movant or the objecting party. 3. Evidence must support the requested modification or opposition thereto, but must be redacted to prevent disclosure of personally identifiable information. For example, proposed changes based on an increase or reduction in income based on annual tax filings must include redacted, as appropriate, copies of such taxes. Changes based on non-recurring expenses must include proof of such expenses, such as receipts or cancelled checks. 4. For a Motion or Objection made by a debtor that is reliant on a change in income or expenses, the Motion or Objection must be supported by attaching the appropriate amended schedules. If the Motion or Objection alleges a change in income or expenses that has already occurred and is not reliant on the outcome of the Motion or Objection, then such amended schedules must also be filed on the docket before the presentment of the Motion or the Objection. If the Motion or Objection is proposing a change contingent upon the outcome of the Motion, Objection or another pending motion (e.g. where there is a concurrent motion to incur debt that would affect expenses), the amended schedules should not be filed on the docket until the change is approved by the court and should only be attached to the Motion or Objection as evidence of the feasibility of the debtor’s proposed change. 5. If the evidence relied on is based on the knowledge of an individual party, a declaration or affidavit from the party must be attached to the Motion or Objection. Such a declaration or affidavit must be attached to a Motion or Objection that relies on amended schedules. In this circumstance, the declaration or affidavit must explain what caused the amendment(s) and why such amendedment(s), as opposed to earlier versions, reliably depict the debtor’s present circumstances. 6. In addition to the notice otherwise required under the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, if the requested modification impairs any party’s claim or treatment under the presently confirmed plan, the Motion or Objection must include proof of proper service, as applicable, on the affected party. 7. Any Motion that fails to comply with this Standing Order will be denied without prejudice and without hearing. 8. Nothing in this Standing Order requires that an Objection be filed, except as otherwise required by the Local Rules, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy or by separate order of the court. 2 Any Objection that fails to comply with this Standing Order will be stricken and will not satisfy the Objection requirement under the applicable Rule or order. ENTER: _____________________________ Timothy A. Barnes United States Bankruptcy Judge Entered this 25th day of January, 2022 3

=== Standing Order No. 4 - Matters Continued on a Draft Order to Follow Basis Before Judge Barnes ===

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JUDGE TIMOTHY A. BARNES STANDING ORDER NO. 4 DRAFT ORDERS TO FOLLOW The court has observed a tendency of parties to not submit draft orders to follow (“DOTFs”) within the time period allotted them (generally fourteen days). As this adds to the court’s burden of having to recall matters that will simply to be continued once again for a delinquent order, the court now implements the following procedures for DOTFs, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT: 1. A party who has been given leave of the court to deliver to Judge Barnes a DOTF (a “DOTF Filer”) must follow the DOTF procedures set forth on the court’s website for Judge Barnes (https://www.ilnb.uscourts.gov/content/judge-timothy-barnes) (the “DOTF Procedures”). Unless a party has been given leave to use the DOTF Procedures on a particular matter, said party must not use the DOTF Procedures. Proposed orders for parties who have not been given such leave must be filed on the docket of the applicable matter. If a proposed order is filed on the docket less than 24 hours in advance of a hearing to which the order relates, the filing party must contact Judge Barnes’ chambers and alert them to the filing of the order. 2. All DOTFs must be submitted to the court in the manner and in accordance with the DOTF Procedures. This includes submitting all DOTFs in fillable order format unless leave is granted not to use a fillable order OR Judge Barnes’ procedures for fillable orders provide an exception to the fillable order requirement. 3. DOTFs are due no later than noon of the business day preceding the date of the hearing (the “Hearing Date”) for which the matter is scheduled (such date and time being the “Due Date”). By way of clarification, when Judge Barnes sets a matter for “14 days, DOTF,” this means that the Hearing Date will occur in 14 days. The Due Date is noon of the day preceding the Hearing Date. 4. If a DOTF Filer cannot comply with the Due Date, the DOTF Filer must contact Judge Barnes’ chambers by the Due Date to request (a) that the matter be called, or (b) that the Due Date be extended. Any extension to the Due Date so requested, if granted by the court, will be posted on the court’s call sheet by the close of business on the day preceding the scheduled Hearing Date and the Hearing Date will be continued in accordance with the extension. 5. If a DOTF Filer fails to comply with paragraph 4 of this Standing Order, the court will automatically continue the matter to a Hearing Date not less than 14 days from the scheduled Hearing Date. The Due Date will be extended accordingly. If the new Hearing Date falls on a day that court is not being conducted, the Hearing Date will be continued in additional seven-day increments until the new Hearing Date falls on a day that the court is conducting hearings. The Due Date will be extended accordingly. 6. A matter continued in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Standing Order will not be called on the originally scheduled Hearing Date, even if the parties request that it be called at the hearing. 7. DOTF Filers who repeatedly fail to comply with paragraph 4 of this Standing Order or who repeatedly fail to correct DOTFs when contacted by Judge Barnes’ chambers may be, in the court’s discretion: (a) defaulted on the DOTF Filer’s position in the matter before the court; 2 (b) excluded from participation in the DOTF Procedures; (c) required to take remedial courses on appropriate compliance with court procedures; and/or (d) subject to further sanction as appropriate under the circumstances. Such a DOTF Filer will be afforded an opportunity to appear before the court by way of an Order to Show Cause prior to any sanction under subsection (c) or (d) being implemented but will be required to report to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission any resulting sanction under subsection (c) or (d). ENTER: _____________________________ Judge Timothy A. Barnes United States Bankruptcy Court Entered this 19th day of November, 2025 3