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Official bankruptcy forms and primary sources

Every form below links to the court's own copy on uscourts.gov, with the date we last captured it. Nothing here is hosted or filled in by us.

The national official bankruptcy forms are published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and are the same in every federal district. Districts add their own local forms and requirements on top of them. This page indexes the national set and links each form to the court’s own copy.

The national official forms

Grouped by what part of a case they belong to. The grouping is ours; the forms, their numbers and their titles are the courts’.

Opening a case

The petition itself, the fee applications, and the notices a court requires at the start of an individual case.

Property, debts, income and expenses

The schedules and the statement of financial affairs — the detailed picture of what someone owns, owes, earns and spends.

Chapter 7 current monthly income and means test

The Chapter 7 income statement and calculation forms. Our means-test screener compares the same figures against the published median for a household size.

Chapter 13 plan and calculations

The national Chapter 13 plan form, the commitment-period and disposable-income calculations, and the confirmation and discharge orders. Many districts require their own local plan form instead of the national one.

Secured property, leases and reaffirmation

The statement of intention for Chapter 7, the reaffirmation documents, and the related motions and orders.

Claims, objections and mortgage cure

The proof of claim and its attachments, objections, and the Rule 3002.1 mortgage motions and notices.

Court notices, orders and discharge

Documents the court and the trustee issue — the case-opening notices, the trustee's final report, and the discharge orders.

Compensation and preparer disclosures

What an attorney or a bankruptcy petition preparer must disclose about what they were paid, plus the statement of military service.

Other official forms

Official forms that do not belong to any group above.

Local forms and local rules

The forms above are national. Each of the 90 federal bankruptcy districts also publishes its own local rules, standing orders and — very often — its own Chapter 13 plan form, which replaces the national one. Those live on the court’s own site.

Find the district and division for a county →

Reference

  • The statutes and rules

    Title 11 of the U.S. Code and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, reproduced in full from the official source with a plain-English explanation on each page.

  • Find the court for a county

    Which federal district and division hears a case filed from a given county, with the court's own citation for the assignment.

  • Glossary of bankruptcy terms

    What the words on these forms mean, each defined against the section or rule that uses it.

  • How the process works

    The mechanics — the means test, the 341 meeting, which debts a discharge reaches, and what happens to secured property.

Instructions and committee notes

The instruction sheets that accompany several forms, and the advisory committee’s notes explaining why a form reads the way it does. These are published alongside the forms; they are not themselves filed.

Bankruptcy.law is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Which forms a particular case needs, and how they are completed, depends on facts and on local rules — the court’s clerk publishes filing instructions, and a bankruptcy lawyer can advise on the rest.

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