How do I know whether a figure I am reading is current?

Each figure displays the date it was last verified against its source, along with the citation and a link to the publishing authority. If that date is older than you would like for a decision that matters, the link goes straight to the official page so you can check it yourself — and a report to the corrections address gets it re-confirmed.

What happens to pages when a legal figure changes?

The figure is corrected at its record, which reaches every page that used it at the same time. Where the change alters the surrounding explanation rather than just the number, the page is rewritten and re-reviewed rather than patched — and rewriting clears its review status, so the new text is read before it is presented as reviewed.

Does the site update automatically when a court changes a rule?

Detection is automated; publication is not. A confirmed change at a source opens a task for a person, and a new legal value reaches the site only through the proposal and approval path every other figure goes through. Nothing in the monitoring layer can write to the published legal record.

Which sources change most often?

District standing orders, by a wide margin — courts reissue them frequently, which is why the corpus holds 2,782 collected standing orders against 1,161 that are currently in force. Means-testing datasets are reissued on the U.S. Trustee Program's schedule, and exemption amounts change when a state adjusts them, often on an inflation cycle.

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Each of the 452 registered sources behind Bankruptcy.law carries its own re-check cadence — weekly for the Bankruptcy Code, the rules and the official forms, monthly for district and state material. When a source changes, the new value goes through the same proposal and approval path as the original, and both versions are kept so the one governing a given filing date can still be found.

Key points

Re-check cadence is set per source: weekly for the fastest-moving federal publications, monthly for district and state sources.
A change at a source opens a review task; it never writes a legal figure automatically.
Two versions of the same rule can be live at once, selected by filing date, so a new figure never deletes the one still governing earlier cases.
Every figure displays when it was last verified against its source, and that date only moves when the value is actually re-confirmed.
Because each page records the figures it used, a change at a source can be traced to every page carrying the old value.

Legal figures move on their own schedule. Exemptions are adjusted for inflation, median income tables are reissued, courts revise standing orders, and fee schedules change by order of the Judicial Conference. Keeping a site current is less about checking often than about knowing precisely what to check, what changed, and which pages depended on it. This page describes how that works here.

How often is each source re-checked?

On a cadence set per source rather than one schedule for everything, because the sources do not move at the same speed. Title 11, the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, the official forms and the means-testing datasets are checked weekly — these are the publications where a change has the widest effect and the shortest notice. District local rules and standing orders are checked monthly, as are most state code sources. That gives 452 registered sources across 52 jurisdictions, each with its own schedule, rather than a single sweep that would either hammer slow sources or arrive late for fast ones.

Re-check cadence by tier
Tier	Sources	Cadence
Federal — Code, rules, forms, means-test datasets	4	Weekly
Federal — fee schedule, regulations, agency programs	9	Monthly
District — local rules and standing orders	90	Monthly
State — codes and collection law	349	Weekly or monthly by source

What happens when a source changes?

A change opens a review task; it does not update a figure. The stored copy of a source is compared against a fresh one, and where they differ the difference is confirmed by a second fetch before anything is raised — official pages carry rotating tokens and timestamps that change on every request, and treating that as an amendment would flood the queue with noise about pages that did not change. A confirmed difference becomes a task for a person, who reads what actually changed and, where a published value moved, files a proposal through the same approval path as the original figure. The detection layer is deliberately unable to write to the published legal tables at all.

Confirmation is a re-fetch, not a size threshold — the most consequential changes here are the smallest, since an exemption moving from one figure to another is a few characters.
Only an unchanged re-check advances a figure's verification date. A detected change is the opposite of verified until someone has looked at it.

Why can two versions of the same rule be live at once?

Because they often both are. When a state adjusts an exemption effective on a date, cases filed before that date are still governed by the previous amount, and the same is true of reissued median income tables. Each version is stored with its own effective window and the applicable one is selected by filing date, so publishing a new figure supersedes only the version sharing its effective date rather than everything before it. Superseding across windows would delete the amount actually controlling an earlier case — which is the version someone with a pending matter most needs to find.

A superseded version is retained for provenance and is not served as current law.
When an authority reissues a table, opening the successor window is part of the same change as closing the previous one.

How is staleness measured?

Against thresholds rather than impressions. A source that has not been re-confirmed within 90 days is flagged for review, and one past 120 days is treated as stale, with tighter numbers where a domain warrants them. Separately, because every page records the figures it used and the values it printed, a change to a canonical figure can be compared against every page carrying the old value, producing a list of pages that need regenerating rather than a manual audit. That check is run after an update cycle, and it reports rather than edits — a changed figure usually means the explanation around it needs rewriting too, not just the number.

Automated monitoring is live: all 452 registered sources were baselined on 26 July 2026, and the sweep now runs daily, checking each source when its own cadence says it is due.
The verification date on a page is read from stored records, so it goes stale visibly instead of advancing on its own.

Frequently asked questions

How do I know whether a figure I am reading is current?: Each figure displays the date it was last verified against its source, along with the citation and a link to the publishing authority. If that date is older than you would like for a decision that matters, the link goes straight to the official page so you can check it yourself — and a report to the corrections address gets it re-confirmed.
What happens to pages when a legal figure changes?: The figure is corrected at its record, which reaches every page that used it at the same time. Where the change alters the surrounding explanation rather than just the number, the page is rewritten and re-reviewed rather than patched — and rewriting clears its review status, so the new text is read before it is presented as reviewed.
Does the site update automatically when a court changes a rule?: Detection is automated; publication is not. A confirmed change at a source opens a task for a person, and a new legal value reaches the site only through the proposal and approval path every other figure goes through. Nothing in the monitoring layer can write to the published legal record.
Which sources change most often?: District standing orders, by a wide margin — courts reissue them frequently, which is why the corpus holds 2,782 collected standing orders against 1,161 that are currently in force. Means-testing datasets are reissued on the U.S. Trustee Program's schedule, and exemption amounts change when a state adjusts them, often on an inflation cycle.

By Antonio G. Jimenez, Esq. · Florida Bar No. 21022

Last reviewed July 27, 2026 · Sources verified July 27, 2026 · How we verify

Every figure on this page is drawn from a primary legal source and checked against our canonical legal database before publication. Bankruptcy.law is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.