Online Bankruptcy Filing Databases And How To Search With Them
The most important and used bankruptcy database is the Pacer database used by the federal courts, this database is accessible online for a fee and is particularly of importance to attorneys throughout America who need to file their clients bankruptcy cases online.
It is also important because when there is greater number of filings, courts allows attorneys to use online means for filing for bankruptcy on behalf of their clients.
However, this bankruptcy database is not accessible directly to debtors who must thus engage an attorney if they want to find information through this means.
Another option available is to use one of the many independent bankruptcy databases that have been built up by many companies, these databases can be very useful when wanting information regarding a company you’re thinking of dealing with or when you have two file for bankruptcy.
Using different search queries with bankruptcy databases
Bankruptcy databases give you tools that allow you to make queries to their database. You will find that you can search by state, city and even using the first few digits of zip codes.
Also locating data according to specific dates is also normally an option. So you can search by filing date, dismissal date and or discharge date. Often it is even possible to search by date of first meeting.
Then of course you may want to try a search by the type of bankruptcy filed. So you can easily search for bankruptcies that were filed under chapter-, 11 and or 7. In addition you may want to even try a combination.
Just as a side note here, remember that Chapter 11 is only for businesses while chapter- is only really for individuals and that also chapter 7 is mostly for businesses as well.
In some cases you may even come across a bankruptcy database that provides information such as the amount of assets and or liabilities that the person or entity in question has.
It might surprise you to know but these bankruptcy databases can often show you actual physical addresses as well and give you the options to be able to filter out house addresses, PO boxes etc, etc.
Whether it be the Pacer bankruptcy database or one of the many others around, there is a lot of information to be research should you need to make use of their services.
Bankruptcy Pacer is just one thing discussed in this How To File Bankruptcy archive here.
