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L.R. 1007-2 - Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1) Filing Requirements. The debtor will not be required to file the documents specified in Bankruptcy Code §§ 521(a)(1)(B)(iv), (v), and (vi), and will be deemed to have satisfied these Bankruptcy Code § 521(a) filing requirements in the following manner:

A. Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(iv). The requirements of Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(iv) (copies of all payment advices or other evidence of payment received within 60 days before the date of the filing of the petition by the debtor from any employer of the debtor) are satisfied by providing to the Trustee (or the United States Trustee in a Chapter 11 case where no Trustee has been appointed) at least fourteen (14) days before the first setting of the § 341 Meeting: 1. Payment advice(s) or other evidence of payment (which may be satisfied by providing less than "all payment advices or other evidence of payment received within sixty (60) days before the date of the filing of the petition ..." - e.g. by providing a year-to-date statement that includes payments received within sixty (60) days of the petition), or 2. A verified statement that the debtor did not receive payments to which Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(iv) applies. In no event should the documents required by Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(iv) be provided later than forty-five (45) days after the date of the filing of the petition. If the § 341 Meeting is not set within forty-five (45) days of the filing of the petition, the 45-day deadline for providing payment advices to the Trustee (or the United States Trustee, if applicable) still applies. If the Trustee or the United States Trustee continues the § 341 Meeting to receive these documents, such continuance will not be deemed a request or consent to extend the deadline of Bankruptcy Code § 521(i). Nothing in this Rule should be construed as requiring the Trustee or the United States Trustee to continue the § 341 Meeting. Failure to provide the documents within the 45-day deadline will be grounds for the Trustee or the United States Trustee (if applicable) to request dismissal. If the case is dismissed following such a request by the Trustee or the United States Trustee, and the debtor believes the case was dismissed in error, the debtor must file any motion to reinstate the case within fourteen (14) days of the entry of the dismissal order. A case that has been dismissed for failure to file a required document or provide a required document to the Trustee or the United States Trustee will not be considered to be a case dismissed in error.

B. Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(v). The requirement of Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(v) (statement of the amount of monthly net income, itemized to show how the amount is calculated) is satisfied by including such information in Schedule I.

C. Bankruptcy Code § 521(a)(1)(B)(vi). The requirement of § 521(a)(1)(B)(vi) (a statement disclosing any reasonably anticipated increase in income or expenditures over the next 12-month period following the date of the filing of the petition) is satisfied by including such information in item 13 of Schedule I and item 24 of Schedule J.