subject: Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Online [print this page] You can find bankruptcy information online, download PDF bankruptcy forms and get an online bankruptcy lawyer to help you but you cannot file your bankruptcy online. This is because currently, there is no online bankruptcy available. You will still need to print out your soft copy bankruptcy forms and then bring your bankruptcy papers and file them physically in the bankruptcy court.
There are thousands of bankruptcy websites available in the internet today. Search engines such as google and yahoo can have thousand of bankruptcy related results if you typed the word chapter 7 bankruptcy online in the search field. You can scan the first few pages of the search results and read the information in each sites and pick the most appropriate site that match what you are looking for.
Chapter 7 is only one of the types of bankruptcy that a person can choose to file. Depending on their eligibility, a person can either file a chapter 7 or chapter 13. Being non eligible to file a chapter 7 will probably make you eligible to file a chapter 13 type of bankruptcy. To be eligible to file chapter 7 type of bankruptcy, a person or consumer must go through a process called means test and pass it. This test is use as a tool to determine if a person has a means to pay a debt using his current financial income.
The process of chapter 7 works to eliminate debts through a process called liquidation. Nonexempt properties will be liquidated that will generate an amount of money which a bankruptcy trustee will use to pay the debts the debtor owes to his creditors. There are two types of properties. These are categorized as exempt or nonexempt properties. Exempt properties are properties which a person can keep while nonexempt properties are properties which are put through liquidation. Negotiations will be made about these properties before the liquidation process starts. There are times in which a consumer will buy back a nonexempt properties in order to keep it, these properties might mean something to the debtor or has a sentimental value.
You can save some money by searching information about chapter 7 bankruptcy online or having your papers prepared by a petition preparer. Having a professional prepare your papers does not only minimize the risk of having errors or mistakes in your bankruptcy paper, it can also save time and money. A simple error in your bankruptcy papers can cause you to lose more assets through liquidation. This can happen if the bankruptcy trustee was not able to miss out on that error and was not able to ask you to amend your bankruptcy papers. You will only need to pay a flat fee amount for the services rendered by a petition preparer in preparing your papers. After your papers are properly prepared, you must check it at least one time by yourself then if you seem to be confident that there are no errors, you can take your bankruptcy papers in court and start filing. For more support on how to file bankruptcy, visit www.onlinebkassist.com.
