To: scion who wrote (9837 ) 5/16/2007 9:19:27 PM From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell Respond to of 12518 I was wondering the same thing. Recall his personal bankruptcy was filed in Florida. International Plastics Inc. (IPI), a subsidiary of Wicklund, the precursor of PLNI, filed Chapter 11 in Case No. 92-52264, Eastern District of Kentucky, Lexington Division. ===== Does a previous bankruptcy prevent me from filing? It depends on - what chapter you want to file now - what chapter you filed before - whether you received a discharge in the earlier case You can only get a Chapter 7 discharge if a previous Chapter 7 case was filed more than 8 years ago. This is a change from the previous period of 6 years. If you got a Chapter 13 discharge within 6 years, the Chapter 13 plan has to meet certain repayment requirements to permit a Chapter 7 case earlier than 6 years from the filing of the prior case. If your previous case was dismissed before discharge, it does not count in these considerations. You can file a Chapter 13 case after a Chapter 7 without any statutory time restrictions. Under the newly amended Code, you can only get a discharge in that Chapter 13 case if the 7, 11, or 12 previous case was filed more than 4 years ago; if the previous case was also a Chapter 13, two years must elapse betwen filings. Some courts, however, question the debtor's good faith, a necessary element to confirm a Chapter 13 plan, if they have recently filed Chapter 7 and received a discharge. You can freely convert a pending case from one chapter to another. It is the same case, even though the chapter is different, so these time considerations don't apply. Generally, you can only convert a Chapter 7 to Chapter 13 before the discharge is entered.moranlaw.net