DEBTOR IN BANKRUPTCY MUST HAVE RECENT CREDIT COUNSELING. QUESTIONS? CALL 235-1970

When you are involved in the bankruptcy process you are required to have recently completed credit counseling. We you do not follow the rules your case can be dismissed .
On January 20, 2012, Debtor filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 13, and a
“Certificate of Counseling” (Docket # 5), which states that on June 3, 2011, Debtor received “an
individual [or group] briefing that complied with the provisions of 11 U.S.C. §§ 109(h) and
111.”

Debtor is not eligible to be a debtor in this case under 11 U.S.C. § 109(h)(1). That
section provides in relevant part, that
an individual may not be a debtor under this title unless such
individual has, during the 180-day period ending on the date of
filing the petition by such individual, received from an approved
nonprofit budget and credit counseling agency described in section
111(a) an individual or group briefing (including a briefing
conducted by telephone or on the Internet) that outlined the
opportunities for available credit counseling and assisted such
individual in performing a related budget analysis.
Debtor did not receive the required credit counseling briefing during the 180-day period
preceding the date of the filing of her petition. Debtor received the credit counseling briefing 231
days before her petition was filed. Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that this case is dismissed.
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Signed on January 23, 2012,UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION In re: Case No. 12-41245
SABRINA WADE, pro se, Chapter 13 , Judge Thomas J. Tucker