How much did you pay on the day of your ch7 file to your attorney?

[howtoplan]

9K but our situation is a wreck and we owe him more. hopefully it will end soon.

[music12]

nothing on filing day. paid everything when i hired him 3 days before that.

[liz417]

Nothing on filing day. But I paid him $2050 for a ch 7 and that did not include credit report, pre and post certificates.

[justplaintired]

We had our tax check which just so happened to be almost exactly what we needed. We had enough left for a dinner out. We paid our attorney on Valentines Day 2008, we filed June 4 2009.


$950 to attorney
$299 filing fee

[liz417]

We had our tax check with just so happened to be almost exactly what we needed. We had enough left for a dinner out. We paid our attorney on Valentines Day 2008, we filed June 4 2009.

Ahh, what a nice Valentines gift...I bet you'll remember that day for the rest of your life...

[joh]

Paid in full before filing 1100$

[kw1025]

i had to give a $2,000 retainer, and since i have not filed yet, he said the remainder should be about $2,500 more. I have an asset case, kinda complicated. I think it is worth it, hopefully.

[justplaintired]

Ahh, what a nice Valentines gift...I bet you'll remember that day for the rest of your life...

LOL I thought of that this past valentines. My dh isn't one bit a romantic, so I doubt he even thought about it, but I know I sure did. As good as the food was, I guess I just never imagined I would be seeing an attorney on Valentines Day to file BK.

[tinfoilhat]

Day of filing $299

[MrSmithster]

i paid the $299 filing fee the day i filed, but i filed Pro Se with a law firm filling out all my paperwork and me taking over from there. they charged me $499 for doing all the paperwork. im in los angeles and have a simple no asset 7, i went to three lawyers for consultations, all wanted over $2k including filing fee and courses.(but thru those free consultations, i realized i could file myself)

[Lookadat]

$369. I belonged to a Metlife/Hyatt Legal Plan that I can use for a wide variety of things, like speeding tickets, etc. I pay 16.50/Month for the last year. I suppose you could say that I paid in advance?

[newbeginning]

...the vast majority of you are paying a lot less than i did! but don't regret it and experience with firm has been very positive and even after BK/discharge, they still answer my questions...

anyway, we paid $1000 to retain, then installments until $2500 total.

[music12]

yup, $2500 plus filing fee.

[berrymom35]

We paid a $600 retainer a year ago...$299 the day we filed for the court costs..and on the day of the 341 we will owe our attorney the balance of I think $400 for her fee.

[debtmonster]

$2000 for the attorney and they added a $550 filing fee. I paid in full just over a week ago. Married couple doing a Ch. 7, no asset case. Going back at the end of this month to sign all of the paperwork and get instructions for those pre-bankruptcy classes I guess.

In the contract I signed with this lawyer, it stated that his fees include up to 25 creditors. On the list I gave him of all the people wanting money from me, it has almost 70 people listed. I posted that list on here a long time ago if you can find one of my old posts. In the contract it says "$300 for every 10 creditors above the 25." So I suspect when I go back, he's going to want another $1200-1500 on top of the $2,000 I gave him. So this whole ordeal could end up costing me up to $3500 for everything. I will know on the 29th.

Rooms to Go and GMAC won't be paid this month so that way I can buy groceries.