Most people who file for bankruptcy choose Chapter 7 instead of Chapter 13 because it's fast, effective, easy to file, and doesn't require payments over time. Chapter 7 bankruptcy usually takes the least time to complete. The process is over in about 4 to 6 months, commonly requiring only one trip to the courthouse by the person filing for bankruptcy to emerge debt-free.
However not every persons who are seeking of getting debt free by filling
bankruptcy will be eligible to file under chapter 7. If you remaining income after subtracting what you will spend on certain allowed expenses and monthly payments for child support, tax debts, secured debts such as a mortgage or car loan, and a few other types of debts is sufficient to support the payment under
chapter 13 repayment
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Check Your Eligibility Criteria
The first step to check your eligibility of filling chapter 7 bankruptcy is to measure your average income for past six months against the median income for a family of your size in your state.
Once you have calculated your income, compare it to the median income for your state (You can find the median income by state information from www .usdoj.gov/ust; click the Mean Testing Information). If your calculated average income is less than or equal to the median income of your state, you can file under chapter 7
bankruptcy, else you need to go through another eligibility test, called "Mean Test".
The "Mean Test" based on the outcome from calculated disposable income.
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To get your disposable income, calculate your average monthly income as describe in above paragraph. From that amount, you subtract both of the following:
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expenses such as clothing, transportation, food and so on; in amounts set by the IRS (Note that this amount may be lower than your actual spending).
- Monthly payments you will have to make on secured and priority debts. Secured debts such as mortgage and/or car loan; priority debts include child support, alimony, tax debts, and wages owed to employees.
If your total monthly disposable income after subtracting these amounts is less than $100, you pass the means test, and will be allowed to file for Chapter 7. If your total disposable income is more than $166.66 then your will automatically force to Chapter 13 unless your have a solid reason with proven facts that you are facing a special circumstances that aren't reflected in the calculations above. You may be allowed to file under chapter 7, but this is a case by case basic.
What if you disposable income fall in between $100 and $166.66? If your disposable income is in this range, you must figure out whether what you have left over is enough to pay more than 25% of your unsecured, non priority debts such as credit cards, student loans and medical bills. If not, you pass the means test, and
Chapter 7 remains an option else you have flunked the means test, and will be prohibited from using Chapter 7.
Summary
You may like most of people prefer to fill the bankruptcy (if this is the option left for debt free) under chapter 7, because it doesn't require you to repay any portion of your debts, as Chapter 13 does. But first thing is your must be eligible and meet the requirement for chapter 7 to opt for this option.
