Chapter 13 Fees Explained By Rockdale Bankruptcy Lawyer

There are different charges for Chapter 13 from one attorney’s office to another.  Below is just an example of one such office.  In 90% of the cases, I see a $650 down payment to start the case.  Now of that $650, the client has provided $274 that goes to the court as the filing fee.  The remaining $376 of the $650 is a payment of attorneys fees which over the life of the case amounts to $3500.  That is the flat fee that the judges have approved that most of the Chapter 13 bankruptcy attorneys charge.  So you are not going to have a lot of price shopping at all on Chapter 13 cases like you will on Chapter 7 because everyone is pretty much doing a flat fee of $3500.  The ones that aren’t doing the $3500 are doing fee billing by the hour and are constantly having to come into court to get their fees approved.  It’s a more difficult method of getting paid.  Thus, most attorneys opt for the flat fee, model retention agreement approach.

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