Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Case
Apr 08, 2011OUTCOME: petitioner received satisfactory discharge
Filed case for joint husband & wife bankruptcy petitioners. Both clients were deaf and required deaf interpreters in court. Before court approved selection of deaf interpreter, the husband became gra ... vely ill and was admitted to nursing home. Since the court will not allow a Power of Attorney to give court testimony in place of a petitioner, we had to arrange a special process to get the husband's testimony from the nursing home, since he was unable to go to court. While waiting for this process to be approved, the husband died in the nursing home, without completing his bankruptcy process. The wife ultimately testified through a deaf interpreter in court and received her Chapter 7 discharge. This case was extended over many months, due to all the special circumstances. It normally would have been a simple Chapter 7 case, if both petitioners had not been deaf and had not had many medical problems. I had to file several motions to avoid liens, in order to defeat creditor judgments already in place.
