Informing Clients during the Bankruptcy Process
Working in a law office, you come to rely on all the people around you. If one person fails to do their job correctly, it dominoes and causes everybody else to not be able to do their job properly or more work for somebody else.
In bankruptcy, there is a process that our office uses, which heavily relies on people doing their job. Our clients usually meet with two or three different people to get their case filed. Once their case is filed, they have a paralegal assigned to their case that only deals with the clients post-petition.
In order to make the post-petition paralegals jobs easier, the pre-petition paralegals must gather all the correct information from the client and make sure the clients are well informed on the process and what to expect during the bankruptcy. The attorney must also go over all the information with the clients to make sure it is all correct, and try and correct any misconceptions of what can and can’t be done while in a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
By making sure that the clients are well informed from the beginning, it prevents them from calling and yelling at the post-petition paralegals because something they weren’t expecting came up during their bankruptcy. Clients get angry because they realized they couldn’t sell their house without permission from the Trustee or they can’t buy a new car without filing a motion. The issues are usually very simple to resolve and occur in many bankruptcies, but to a client who is already stressed about money any snag in the road can become a big issue.
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