Comments on: Beware the Emergency Bankruptcy Filing http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/ Becoming a better bankruptcy lawyer Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cathy Moran, Esq. http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Cathy Moran, Esq. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:49:58 +0000 http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/?p=179#comment-131 You've got my point: make sure you have the whole picture before you file the petition. If the client has been forthcoming, and you've taken time to consider the client's information, you should be good. My experience, however, is that clients never provide complete information on the first pass and there is a temptation when facing a deadline not to stop and analyze what you know, but rather to get carried along on the tide of the emergency. You’ve got my point: make sure you have the whole picture before you file the petition. If the client has been forthcoming, and you’ve taken time to consider the client’s information, you should be good.

My experience, however, is that clients never provide complete information on the first pass and there is a temptation when facing a deadline not to stop and analyze what you know, but rather to get carried along on the tide of the emergency.

]]> By: Stan Lockhart http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Stan Lockhart Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:58:32 +0000 http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/?p=179#comment-129 At least require that the intake sheet and checklist is complete before filing...but then that is just a few hours from a complete filing with all the schedules, right??? Not a true skeleton filing.... We did one the other morning first couple of days of March, filed at 12:27pm for a foreclosure sale @ 12:30pm Trustee sale....I finished the rest at midnight last night....that was a loooooong day...but saved their home for a couple of months.... At least require that the intake sheet and checklist is complete before filing…but then that is just a few hours from a complete filing with all the schedules, right??? Not a true skeleton filing….

We did one the other morning first couple of days of March, filed at 12:27pm for a foreclosure sale @ 12:30pm Trustee sale….I finished the rest at midnight last night….that was a loooooong day…but saved their home for a couple of months….

]]> By: Melissa Polk http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Melissa Polk Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:27:45 +0000 http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/?p=179#comment-115 Great advice!! I am starting to receive calls for emergency filings and I have already filed a few that have left me with large headaches once all of the debtors financial information has been disclosed. Great advice!! I am starting to receive calls for emergency filings and I have already filed a few that have left me with large headaches once all of the debtors financial information has been disclosed.

]]> By: John Rogers http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/comment-page-1/#comment-98 John Rogers Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:57:47 +0000 http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/?p=179#comment-98 Great advice even for the seasoned practitioner.... we all fall into this trap occasionally ! Great advice even for the seasoned practitioner…. we all fall into this trap occasionally !

]]> By: Melinda Dionne http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/beware-the-emergency-bankruptcy-filing/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Melinda Dionne Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:06:12 +0000 http://www.bankruptcymastery.com/?p=179#comment-95 Excellent Advice! Excellent Advice!

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