Means test issue: car lease ends before filing
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 9:57 am
No. 707(b)(2)(A)(iii) uses forward looking secured debt
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On Wed May 17 2017 18:46:40 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), ccooper@publiccounsel.org [cdcbaa] wrote:
Potential debtor is over median income for means test. His car lease ended a couple months ago, and he decided to just use public transit. But that makes him ineligible for Chapter 7
However, for 4 of the 6 months of the lookback period, he had vehicle ownership and operating expenses. Is there any way he can "prorate" those expenses for means test purposes, perhaps as a special circumstance? Or is he stuck with just the $189 public transit expense?
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