"Ohio Chapter 13 Forms"
To initiate an Ohio bankruptcy plan under Chapter 13, a petition must be filed, supplemented by complete list of creditors and
related documents and schedules. Many courts today accept only forms prepared electronically on official forms and
further require either online filing or submission on
computer diskette.
| Effective as of December 1, 2003, the official forms required in Chapter 13 hanged.
Previously, social security numbers were published within documents and schedules a were available to the
public. The current
changes prohibit this practice. The person responsible for filing documents, and not the Clerk's Office,
trustee
or the courts, is responsible for insuring the privacy of debtors. |
Most Courts across the county, including Ohio bankruptcy Courts, require all cases to be filed
electronically. Electronic filing includes online submission and filing by diskette at the clerk's office. On
03-15-04 the Ohio Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District issued the following order: "Notice to Attorneys
Concerning Paper Filings: Any Attorney wishing to file a new petition or other document on paper, under
circumstances that are not governed by one of the exceptions to mandatory electronic case filing set forth in
Amended General Order 03-1, shall initially file a motion for leave to file on paper. The motion, which may be
filed via the mail or over the counter, shall be accompanied by an affidavit and proposed order. The affidavit
shall set forth the specific reasons that the filing cannot be made electronically."
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