Will a bankruptcy lawyer drop your case if you can’t provide all required documentation?
Question by Matthew: Will a bankruptcy lawyer drop your case if you can’t provide all required documentation?
My wife and I are wanting to declare bankruptcy and our lawyer is asking us for our last 2 years tax returns.
We have one, but moved in the last 2 years and do not have a completed 2007 form. We can’t find our W2′s. I am trying to get it the original ordered through the IRS but it takes 60 days.
What is the usual protocol? Will the court and lawyer wait for us to get it?
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Answer by Lee J
As long as you keep paying the little parasite, he’ll keep your case open.
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You can get copies of your W’2 from your previous employer. The lawyer will not drop your case. He’ll want all the money he can get. It will just prolong the case until all the documentation is provided.
He can put your case on hold, but I will tell you, it is quite irresponsible of you two not having those things in order, in a file cabinet with the last 10 years at least of tax papers. You never know when you’ll be audited and you don’t mess w/ the IRS so that should be your priority right now, getting your home in order, and I am talking organized and not cleaning up the house.
Moving two years ago is plenty of time to be unpacked, when we moved which we have done several times in our marriage, the whole file cabinet of taxes were all in order so we just had the cabinet to move and not papers scattered about.
You may not like my answer but sounds like you need to get your life organized.