You are you viewing the Bankruptcy Forum as a guest (limited viewing).
Don't have a BKForum account yet?
Please REGISTER (it's FREE & takes 30 seconds) so you can post your own questions and see all the features available to registered users.
Did you file pro se or are you attending your hearing because your attorney wants you to?
In most districts the debtor must attend. Life would be so much easier if I could leave my client at the office.
I am a Pennsylvania Eastern and Middle District Bankruptcy, FDCPA, FCRA and Foreclosure Defense attorney, information I post is based on experience in these districts. It is not legal counsel, consider it friendly counsel.
Interesting, Jim. In our experience with members posting about this here, most local courts do not require the filers to attend the confirmation hearing unless there's a compelling reason to do so.
We're in the 10th district and asked our lawyer if we could attend our confirmation hearing (we had three objections to our plan). Our lawyer said sure, if we wanted to, but it was not required. All we would hear is that our case was not confirmed, that the trustee, one creditor, and our lawyer were working together to resolve the objections, and that would be it. And he was right.
The filers attending their confirmation hearing seems to be something that is driven by local courts, states, and/or bk districts. In fact, some members have posted that in cases without objections, even their lawyer did not have to attend the confirmation hearing.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice nor a statement of the law - only a lawyer can provide those.
06/01/06 - Filed Ch 13
06/28/06 - 341 Meeting
07/18/06 - Confirmation Hearing - not confirmed, 3 objections
10/05/06 - Hearing to resolve 2 trustee objections
01/24/07 - Judge dismisses mortgage company objection
09/27/07 - Confirmed at last!
06/10/11 - Trustee confirms all payments made
08/10/11 - DISCHARGED ! 10/02/11 - CASE CLOSED Countdown: 60 months paid, 0 months to go
Comment