{"id":625,"date":"2007-03-24T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/24\/bankruptcy-help-in-brooklyn\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T16:26:01","slug":"bankruptcy-help-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/03\/24\/bankruptcy-help-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"bankruptcy help in brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite its cautionary title, yesterday&#8217;s NPR piece from <em>Marketplace Money<\/em>,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marketplacemoney.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/03\/23\/personal_bankruptcy\/\">Self-filing for bankruptcy can cost you<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0(March 23, 2007; listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradio.org\/tools\/media\/player\/money\/2007\/03\/23_soundmoney?start=00:35:00.4&amp;end=00:38:44.7\">here)<\/a> has some good news for those who want or need to file for bankruptcy without a lawyer: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyeb.uscourts.gov\/\">United States Bankruptcy Court, EDNY<\/a>\u00a0(Brooklyn) has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyeb.uscourts.gov\/pro_se_assistance.htm\"><em>Pro Se<\/em> Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/a> and the pilot program &#8220;may be replicated in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"28\" alt=\"graphClimbS\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/files\/2007\/03\/graphClimbS.jpg\" width=\"35\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 Mary Fox currently holds the <em>Pro Se<\/em> clerk job in the Brooklyn bankruptcy court.\u00a0 The services are provided in person at the court on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0 Ms Fox only provides legal information, not legal advice.\u00a0 She offers two impressions about <em>pro se<\/em> litigants in the NPR piece:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;People will pay thousands of dollars for root canal, but they seriously question whether they should hire an attorney for important, life-altering decisions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;And a few filers, she says, have really done their homework and are pretty qualified to represent themselves.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In our prior post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/06\/bankruptcy-law-self-help\/\">bankruptcy law self-help<\/a>, you can find many free, online resources to help prepare for filing bankruptcy on your own.\u00a0 For example, the webpage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcb.uscourts.gov\/pro_se.htm\"><font color=\"#00418b\">Filing Bankruptcy Without an Attorney (Pro Se)<\/font><\/a>, from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia offers help for the <em>pro se<\/em> litigant, including a 77-page pdf. document on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcb.uscourts.gov\/pdf_files\/BKBasics.pdf\"><font color=\"#00418b\"><em>Bankruptcy Basics<\/em><\/font><\/a>, explaining the \u201cbasics\u201d and process since the new bankruptcy law became effective in October 2005.<font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite its cautionary title, yesterday&#8217;s NPR piece from Marketplace Money,\u00a0&#8220;Self-filing for bankruptcy can cost you&#8221;\u00a0(March 23, 2007; 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