Petition, Schedules and Statements

• Voluntary petition for individuals filing for bankruptcy (Form 101)
• For individual chapter 11 cases: List of creditors who have the 20 largest unsecured claims against you and are not insiders (Form 104)
• Summary of your assets and liabilities and certain statistical information (Form 106Sum)
• Schedules A/B - J2 (Form 106C, 106A/B, 106D, 106E/F, 106G, 106H, 106I, 106J  and, if applicable, 106J-2)
• Declaration about an individual debtor's schedules (Form 106Dec)
• Statement of financial affairs for individuals filing for bankruptcy (Form 107)
• Disclosure of compensation of attorney for debtor (Local Form 1007-1)
• Chapter 11 statement of your current monthly income (Form 122B) **
• Bankruptcy petition preparer's notice, declaration, and signature (Form 119) AND Disclosure of compensation of bankruptcy petition preparer (Form 2800) (if debtor has paid or agreed to pay someone who is not an attorney to fill out bankruptcy forms)
• Balance Sheet
• Cash flow statement
• Statement of operations
• Tax information

* The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 is also referred to on these pages as "Subchapter V," or "Chapter 11, Subchapter V." 

Instructions: Bankruptcy Forms for Individuals (includes information for completing the forms)

These documents should be filed as attachments to the main petition document. See instructions for filing separate attachments to a main document.

Do not attach payment advices, certificates of credit counseling, plans or applications to the petition and schedules! These documents must be filed separately.

The full legal description of any real property should be included on Schedule C or on an exhibit or attachment to that Schedule, as required by Local Rule 1007-1(b). 

** The Chapter 11 statement of your current monthly income (Form 122B) is NOT required in subchapter V cases. 
See Interim Rule 1007(b)(5).  

For cases filed under the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (Chapter 11, Subchapter V):

Interim Rules

Procedures 

The Balance sheet, Cash flow statement and Statement of operations should be filed separately using the appropriate CM events.

Appropriately redacted tax information should be filed using the voluntary petition event (if appended to the petition) or the Tax information for small business event (if filed separately).  

Initial statement about an eviction judgment against you (Form 101A) (if applicable)

Statement about payment of an eviction judgment against you (Form 101B) (if applicable)

The debtor must serve these forms on the landlord and file proof of such service with the court. 

Rent deposited with the court must be in the form of a certified check or money order made payable to the debtor's landlord.

Certificate of Credit Counseling: A list of United States Trustee, District of Minnesota approved pre-bankruptcy credit counseling agencies can be found here.

Payment advices cover sheet and Debtor’s income records.

Income records are pay stubs or other evidence of income received within 60 days before the filing.

Each debtor's pen in hand signature is required on the cover sheet.

Signature declaration form 

Statement about your social security numbers (Form 121)

This is an optional document to be submitted only by debtors who wish to receive court generated documents by email instead of paper copies though the U.S. Mail.

Each debtor completes a separate form with pen in hand signature.

For further information, visit the court's DeBN page.