Friday, December 11, 2009

Online Bankruptcy Databases: How To Search With Their Interface

By Benjamin Forest

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.

You see quite often when courts find themselves overrun with a lot of bankruptcy filings to process they will allow attorneys dealing with their clients bankruptcies to make use of online means in order to complete their clients bankruptcy filing.

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

If you are looking to use these kinds of bankruptcy databases, you can enter certain parameters for your search which can include according to region which will throw up information according to county, state, city and even three first digits of zip codes.

In addition, you may want to locate information according to date such as filing dates, discharge date, dismissal date and even date of first meeting of which a 341 meeting is a good example.

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 for those who are unclear on this, Chapter 11 is only businesses and you will find that chapter 7 is mostly for businesses too where as chapter- on the other hand is only really for individuals.

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.

You can also expect to find house addresses, apartment numbers, PO boxes etc. You should also be able to filter through this information.

Thus, as you can see, each different bankruptcy database has a lot of information that it contains and which can be accessed entirely or according to specific needs and it will prove to be very helpful under different situations. - 23309

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