"Ohio Chapter 7 Forms"
To file, all Ohio bankruptcy cases under Chapter 7 cases must be initiate by filing a petition, list of
creditors, and related documentations. Typically, a free set of documents and forms, including instructions, is
available through the clerk's office.
| Effective as of December 1, 2003, the official forms required in Chapter 7changed. These
changes prohibit the previous practice of publishing debtors' full social security number in publicly
available documents and schedules. The person responsible for filing documents, and not the Clerk's Office
or the courts, is responsible for redacting all but the last four digits. |
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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