Lists, Schedules, Statements, and Other Documents
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire
(a) Form. All schedules and statements shall conform substantially to the most recent version of the 2 Official Bankruptcy Forms available at www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/forms/bankruptcy-forms. In individual cases, Schedules A/B through J must be filed. In all other cases, Schedules A/B and D through H must be filed.
(b) Filing of Schedules and Statements. Schedules and statements must be filed as one PDF document and collated in the following sequence: (1) Petition. (2) Statement of Financial Affairs. (3) Schedules A/B through J. (4) Official Bankruptcy Forms B 122A, B, or C, including the Means Test Calculation and Calculation of Your Disposable Income, if appropriate.
(5) Summary of Assets and Liabilities. (6) Declaration About Schedules. (7) Disclosure of Compensation of Attorney for Debtor Pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2016(b). (8) Statement of Intention for Individuals Filing Under Chapter 7, if appropriate.
(9) List of Creditors Who Have the 20 Largest Unsecured Claims and Are Not Insiders in Chapter 9 or 11 Cases, if appropriate. (10) Verification of Creditor Mailing List with list of creditors in matrix format attached. (c) Paper or Electronic Copies at 341 Meeting. The debtor must have a complete paper or electronic copy of the signed petition, schedules, statements and lists at the 341 Meeting so that parties may reference them when examining the debtor.
(d) Statement About Your Social Security Number. An individual debtor is required to file with the petition the Statement About Your Social Security Number on Official Bankruptcy Form B 121. To keep the social security number private, it must be filed using the event “Statement re: Social Security Number – Form 121” in CM/ECF which will cause this information to be restricted from the public. (e) Failure to Timely File Schedules.
If the debtor fails to file all schedules and statements required by Bankruptcy Rule 1007, and no extension of time has been requested or granted, the court may issue an order to show cause or notice why the case should not be dismissed, unless the provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 521(i) apply, in which event the case may be dismissed in accordance with LBR 1007-8. (f) Credit Counseling – Request for Temporary Waiver and Extension of Time. If, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 109(h)(3), the debtor seeks a temporary waiver of the credit counseling requirement and requests an extension of time to (a) complete that counseling and (b) obtain and file with the court a certificate of credit counseling, the debtor shall file a motion in the form of LBF 1007-1. 3 LBR 1007-2 Mailing — List or Matrix (a) List and Verification.
At the time the petition is filed, the debtor must file LBF 1007-2 which shall have attached to it a master address list of all creditors and parties in interest. The list must contain the names, addresses, and ZIP codes of all creditors and parties in interest, in alphabetical order and in matrix format. For electronically filed cases, the list shall also be uploaded to CM/ECF as a “.txt” file. (b) Format.
The list of creditors shall be formatted as follows: (1) Lists must be left aligned and typed in a single column with no stray marks, page numbers or debtor names. (2) Lists must be no closer than one inch from any edge of the paper. (3) Each name/address must consist of no more than five (5) total lines, with at least one blank line between each of the name/address blocks. (4) Each line must be no more than forty (40) characters in length.
(5) Do not include the following parties on the list of creditors: debtor, joint debtor, debtor’s attorney and United States Trustee. (6) Do not include account numbers. (7) Attention lines must appear on the second line of the address block. (8) ZIP codes should appear at the end of the last line.
An example of the approved list of creditors in matrix format is set forth below: ABC Corporation ATTN: Comptroller 1234 Main Street Boston, MA 02109-1782 First City Nat'l Bank of Beaumont PO Box 3391 Beaumont, TX 77704-0965 Flex Northwest 1540 NW 46th Street Seattle, WA 98372-6578 4 LBR 1007-6 Filing of Educational Individual Retirement Accounts Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 521(c) Any interest that a debtor has in an educational individual retirement account or under a qualified state tuition program: (1) shall not be filed with the court unless ordered, and (2) shall be provided to the trustee in accordance with 11 U.S.C. § 521(c).
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