When a person files for bankruptcy, their property is considered either exempt, meaning protected from creditors under the law, or non-exempt, meaning not protected from creditors. In a chapter 7 bankruptcy case, the debtor is required to give any non-exempt property they have to the trustee to be used to pay creditors, or enter into an agreement with the trustee, wherein they agree to pay the trustee to keep the non-exempt property. In a chapter 13 case, in which the debtor makes payments towards their debts in a 3 to 5 repayment plan, the debtor gets to keep their nonexempt property but must pay to their unsecured creditors at least as much as the creditors would have received had the debtor hypothetically filed a chapter 7 case.
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When a person files for bankruptcy, their property is considered either exempt, meaning protected...
