{"id":211,"date":"2006-10-19T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/19\/bankruptcy-document-preparers-getting-b"},"modified":"2006-10-19T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T20:35:28","slug":"bankruptcy-document-preparers-getting-busier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/19\/bankruptcy-document-preparers-getting-busier\/","title":{"rendered":"bankruptcy document preparers getting busier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">According to a <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/061019\/dcth027.html?.v=76\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">press release<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> from the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naldp.org\/\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">National Association of Legal Document Preparers<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">, dated Oct. 19, 2006,\u00a0&#8220;One year after legislation designed to reduce personal bankruptcy filings went into effect, nearly 80% of legal document preparers are seeing a spike in bankruptcy filings.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the state of confusion among the public described in our prior post on <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/06\/bankruptcy-law-self-help\/\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">bankruptcy self-help<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">,\u00a0NALDP Director Lizanne Sadlier reports that\u00a0&#8220;people are starting to wade through that misinformation and realize they can still file for bankruptcy and qualify for Chapter 7.&#8221;\u00a0 Sadlier added that\u00a0&#8220;more complicated paperwork and increased lawyer fees are leading many people to seek affordable and reliable assistance from legal document preparers.&#8221;\u00a0 In addition, although\u00a0bankruptcy attorney\u00a0fees are rising, &#8220;the majority of legal document preparers surveyed have not raised their prices, which are typically 50-80% less than attorney fees.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"26\" alt=\"black check\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2006\/08\/black%20check.gif\" width=\"30\" \/>Finally, to no one&#8217;s surprise (if you think about it), the great majority of people filing for bankruptcy &#8220;do not have the means to qualify for Chapter 13&#8221; (which applies to people above the median income in each state), and therefore do qualify for Chapter 7. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release from the National Association of Legal Document Preparers, dated Oct. 19, 2006,\u00a0&#8220;One year after legislation designed to reduce personal bankruptcy filings went into effect, nearly 80% of legal document preparers are seeing a spike in bankruptcy filings.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the state of confusion among the public described in our prior post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,898],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-studies-reports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}