Payment of Fee

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Category:  Miscellaneous Documents

This document event Payment of Fee is to be used to correct an erroneous fee amount that may appear on your outstanding credit card balance in the event a new case was opened under an incorrect chapter or an incorrect document event was selected to file a fee document. 

Before using this document event select the appropriate circumstance below and follow the steps:

• New case opened under an incorrect chapter

  Review your Summary of Charges on your Credit Card  Payment report.  If an erroneous fee amount (and chapter) appears for a newly filed Bankruptcy case, follow the below steps:

  1. Contact the Financial Specialist (619-557-5376) to remove the incorrect fee .
  2. Contact the case administrator for the newly filed Bankruptcy case to correct case chapter information.  Once the correction has been made, the case administrator will direct you to pay the filing fee as instructed in this procedure.

   

• Incorrect document event used to file a fee document

  Review your Summary of Charges on your Credit Card  Payment report.  If an erroneous fee amount or no fee appears for an Amendment, Motion for Relief from Stay or Motion to Reopen, follow the below steps:

  1. If erroneous fee amount appears, contact the Financial Specialist (619-557-5376) to remove the incorrect fee.
  2. Contact the case administrator for the case in which the document was filed.  The case administrator will instruct you to do one of the following:
     • Re-file the document using correct fee document event
       OR
     • Proceed to pay the correct fee as instructed in this procedure.

   

1. Select Bankruptcy menu.
2. Select Miscellaneous Documents.
3. Ensure correct case name and number match the document you are filing.
4. Select party filer.
   • Party filer not listed, Add/Create New Party.

     Use the Add/Create New Party only when party is not on the Party Filer pick list. From the Select the Party screen: Click on Add/Create New Party hyperlink. The Search for Party screen appears. Enter social security number, tax identification number or last/business name (upper and lower case) to search for new party name in the ECF database. The Party Search Results appears. Party name appears: select name and verify party name information in pop-up window. Party information is correct, click Select name from list button. Party name appears but information is incorrect, click on Create New Party. The Party Information screen appears. Complete or update all appropriate fields for the party filer. Select appropriate Role for new party filer such as Creditor (cr:cr). Party name does not appear, click on Create New Party. The Party Information screen appears. Complete or update all appropriate fields for the party filer. Select appropriate Role for new party filer such as Creditor (cr:cr). Once this is complete you will return to the Select the Party screen, which will list the party filer name.

     Quick Note Making any changes in Add/Create New Party screen will only affect this case.  Remember to change the ROLE accordingly.

5. Select Document Event: Payment of Fee.
6. Select type of Fee Item.
   • Amendment
   • Relief from Stay
   • Reopen
   • New Case
7. Verify filing fee.
8. Modify text to add pertinent information, such as Amended, if applicable.

   Check the box: Refer to Existing Event(s)? The Select the Category to Which your Events Relates screen appears. Select the category in which the related document was filed in. Note: This step 2 may not appear in all document events, continue with Step 3. Select the appropriate document text to link.

   Quick Note  When AMENDING a document always link back to the document you are amending.

9. Verify final docket text before submitting onto case docket.
10. Print the Notice of Electronic Filing. It's your receipt.

    Print to PDF Click on File on the application's menu bar. Click on Print from the drop down menu. The Print Dialog Box appears. Select Acrobat PDF Writer as your current printer selection and press Print. The Save PDF File As screen appears. Name your PDF file. Click in the Save in: Window to choose the directory to save your PDF file. Click on the Save button to print to PDF. Print a paper copy Click on File on the application's menu bar. Click on Print from the drop down menu. The Print Dialog Box appears. Select your current printer and press the Print button.

    Quick Note Keep original signed document along with the Notice of Electronic Filing at your office.

11. Continue with your Credit Card Payment.

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