What Do We Know About Self-Represented Parties in our Court?


The starting point for evaluating and implementing our programs is to understand more about the self-represented population we serve. We can measure how many people file bankruptcy without a lawyer, but we know little about the demographics of this group. For example, we do not yet have a way to collect the median income of debtors efficiently because our current filing program does not sort or flag this data. This section summarizes the information we have been able to gather about self-represented parties and how their cases differ from those with attorneys.

How Many Self-Represented Parties Are There?

Measuring Success

Language Barriers

Bankruptcy Petition Preparers

Income Levels

Literacy Issues

Self-Represented Creditors


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