What is the difference between discharged and closed?

[BKch7]

I was just discharged yesterday 8/28/09 and per PACER I am waiting on the case being closed.

[HHM]

http://www.bkforum.com/showthread.php?t=10879

LOL, it's amazing what you will find in the Bankruptcy FAQ section

[justbroke]

Excellent. There's a Sticky Thread already on this topic, written by HHM. Please search for it.

https://www.bkforum.com/node/11177

(Ooops... Mr. 9,000 answered this himself. )

[AngelinaCatHub]

Well, in that case, you deserve our "Official (unofficially) Victory Dance"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3894301868978665655

Grats from all of us.

Your question, Discharged is you are done, closed is paperwork to go before the Judge and is just finishing up the legalities.

[MSbklawyer]

I was just discharged yesterday 8/28/09 and per PACER I am waiting on the case being closed.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_11_00000524----000-.html

Closing of the case, on the other hand, is simply an administrative act by the court considering the case to be fully administered and removing it from the active docket.

See:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_11_00000350----000-.html

and

http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frbp/rules.htm#Rule5009

HHM summed it up nicely here:

http://www.bkforum.com/showthread.php?t=10879

I wouldn't have written all this if I had known about HHM's post earlier.

[justbroke]

I wouldn't have written all this if I had known about HHM's post earlier.

I wouldn't have written what I wrote, pointing to HHM's FAQ, had I know either. He's faaaaast!

[BKch7]

Thank you

Thank you for answering this.

I am finding this forum very helpful!