Standard Features

The features listed here are all those one should expect from any bankruptcy software program. Of course, Bankruptcy2008™ includes everything listed, plus many other powerful electronic filing capabilities.

Bankruptcy Reform
  • Totally rewritten just for Bankruptcy Reform
  • The easiest, most elegant means test calculator, the Means Master™
  • All new chapter 13 module for those cases that no longer qualify under chapter 7
  • See the separate Bankruptcy Reform section for details.
Forms
  • Pixel for pixel replicas of the official forms.
  • Automatic continuation pages
  • Automatic pagination
  • Automatic Summary of Schedules
  • Automatic Form 8 (Chapter 7 Statement of Intention)
  • Automatic Address Matrices (any style, including OCR, Laser & disk)
  • Automatic default responses for all questions, including your own pick lists and default answers
    • for things like "county", "asset location", "consideration", etc.
  • Print your answers in any font, size and style you wish
  • Most responses will automatically shrink to fit space available on forms
  • Print on plain paper with any Windows compatible printer
Sorting
  • Automatically sorts randomly entered data onto correct schedules
  • Automatically alphabetizes all creditors
  • Automatically sorts 20 largest unsecured creditors
Import - Export
  • Import creditors from your client's ASCII tab-delimited text file to client file
  • Import creditors directly into the schedules from your client's credit report
  • Import an entire case from the Rapid Import electronic questionnaire.
  • Export creditors in user-defined format for Address Matrices on disk
  • Export all creditor information (tab delimited) for use in mail merge, spreadsheet or database, etc.
  • Import & export of frequently used creditors, including lists from other programs
  • Exports "case upload" (attorney extract) file in ECF districts
  • Send your client file via e-mail using a single menu option
Flexibility
  • Useable in multiple districts & divisions
  • Easy editing and conversion to other chapters
  • Setup your own matrix format to accommodate any local rule
  • No locked fields -- You control all local information
  • Print a page, a form, or entire case with one mouse click
  • List "Notice Only", "unknown", "indeterminate" creditors & assets
  • Useable for all chapters (7, 9, 11, 12, 13 & 15)
  • No limit to number of attorneys per firm (on multi-user versions)
  • Use any font, size or style for answers
  • Choice of interfaces - classic overlapping windows, or single wizard window
  • Export formats are user defined
  • Extensive and multiple settings/preferences files
  • One client = One File. Just like any wordprocessor, spreadsheet, drawing program, etc., all information for a client is in a single file making it easy to copy, rename, backup, move, or sort client files.
  • Keyboard equivalents for practically every command
Half the case is done before you start
  • Reuseable list of common creditors
  • Default answers to all questions - no need to check "None"
  • Automatically formats names, dates and captions on all forms
  • Reuses all data for companion cases, e.g. spouses, partners, corps.
  • Automatically checks all appropriate boxes
  • Pastes reusable answers throughout forms automatically
  • Schedule I automatically calculates monthly totals regardless of pay period
  • Create custom templates, or companion cases
Intuitive
  • User friendly windows guide you every step of the way
  • Follows Microsoft User Interface Guidelines so it works just like any other Windows program
  • Only valid choices are displayed for you
  • Perfect for both the novice and pro
  • Watch your case develop with the case overview tree control
Installation & Support
  • Installs in minutes
  • No changes to system files, no invasive dlls, easy uninstallation and updating
  • Experienced bankruptcy attorneys to answer technical questions