Amendments to Lists and Schedules

(a) Form. If a debtor seeks to amend the petition or any schedule, statement, or other document, that amended document must be accompanied by a fully completed Notice of Amendment in the form of LBF 1009-1A. (b) Additional Creditors. In the event that the debtor seeks to add additional creditors, the amendment must include a supplement to the list of creditors that includes only the names and addresses of the newly added creditors, or whose names and addresses have been changed by the amendment, which supplement shall conform to the requirements of LBR 1007-2.

(c) Notice to Affected Parties. Any amendments to the debtor’s schedules must be served on all affected creditors, any trustee, counsel to any creditors’ committee and the United States Trustee at the time of filing. If the debtor adds creditors to the case, the debtor shall serve upon each newly-listed creditor a copy of the following: (1) Notice of Amendment; (2) Notice of Bankruptcy Case (known as the 341 notice); (3) Order granting discharge, if any; and (4) Any other filed document affecting the rights of said creditor. 5 LBR 1015-1 Joint Administration/Consolidation (a) Related Cases.

Whenever related cases are filed, but not consolidated or jointly administered by order of the court, any pleading or other document intended to be filed in both cases must be filed separately in each case. (b) Jointly Administered or Consolidated Cases. Whenever the court orders that related cases be jointly administered or consolidated pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 1015, all subsequent papers shall be filed in the chief case designated by the court. (c) Proofs of Claim.

Proofs of claim or any associated transfers of claim in jointly administered cases shall be filed in the cases to which they pertain unless otherwise ordered by the court.