60 day club

[iloveoliver]

I emailed my atty re this due dates for bankruptcy filing events and here is his response.

The deadline for objections to exemptions is 30 days from your original 341 hearing date. She cannot close or discharge the case before that date. There is no discharge date. There is a deadline for objections to discharge but the Trustee does not grant your discharge on that date even if there are no objections. The Trustee determines when you get your discharge and that will be sometime after the deadline for objections to discharge. There is a difference between discharged and closed.

The date that concerns the debtor is the discharge date as that is when you are no longer responsible for those debts. The case is always discharged before it is closed.

The case will close when the Trustee closes it. I cannot tell you when as sometimes they leave cases open for some time although I think there is a great likelihood in your case that it will be closed shortly after you receive your discharge, assuming there are no objections.

The significance of the case closing is just that the case is not active before the Trustee or court. The case can still be reopened in unusual circumstances (such as the debtor committing fraud in the filing of the schedules).

I cannot say why I see others with an addtional 30 dyas tacked on but this is what my atty says.

[hendry70]

Your trustee and creditors have 30 days to object to your exemption claims. They have 60 days to object to your discharge.