So...the US trustee wants to meet with me...

[DivorceRuinedMe]

So, the US Trustee wants to meet with me on Thursday to go over my audit (and the material mis-statement that was found - that was a clerical error - btw. At least that's what the paralegal says is the reason she wants to meet with me and the atty. I'm not so sure). I don't know why I have to go there IN PERSON for this seeing as it's pretty clear as to the error that was made - my salary was put in as a bi-weekly total instead of a monthly total. Problem is that I can't go in on Thursday b/c i just had surgery and have to lay down due to the type of surgery it was so that makes an hour and a half car ride out.

The paralegal said she'd call back and let me know if we could do a teleconference but she never did today. So now I'm sweating it wondering why she really wants to see me and wondering what's going to happen....

UGH.....

[DivorceRuinedMe]

Well, i had my little teleconference and it went well. The US Trustee basically asked me why I didn't read over my petition more thoroughly and said that if my case wasn't pulled for one of these random audits that it wouldn't be so awful. But b/c it was, well, it made it a bit of a nightmare that I had this big mis-statement. She said that normally it's a big deal but under these circumstances, it's an even bigger deal b/c she has to justify to her boss why she's not going to object to my discharge now (she said some numbers like 722 or something - I wasn't sure what she meant, sure someone else here knows).

I explained to her the whole situation of the clerical error and how I did read it over and that I signed two copies and the wrong one was filed. I also told her how it was late in the day, I got lost getting to my atty's office (had never been there from my new house) and how I felt rushed. She called the atty out on not catching the error either. She made the atty say what she was doing to prevent this from happening again and basically put her on the spot. I mean, it was HER fault totally, but it was my fault for not catching it.

Let this be a lesson to everyone to check and double check everything before you sign it b/c you just never know. Attys and their staff and sloppy and major mistakes like this can cause nightmares that are totally unnecessary.

I'll find out from the atty tomorrow hopefully if the US trustee said anything to her about what her decision was going to be. I got a good impression that she was satisfied with my explanation but you just never know. I basically kept telling her how I just couldn't catch a break in my life (thus the reasons I filed bk) and that this was just one more thing in a long line of crap that I've been through in my life. I think she felt a tad bit sorry for me so that's always a good thing, right. LOL.

[ameliabedilia]

I am sorry this happened to you, but I do think it sounds like it might be cleared up now. Keep us posted!