General Orders

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	General Order No. 13-01 - THIRD AMENDED IT IS ORDERED that for all chapter 13 cases filed on or after June 1, 2025 the maximum Flat Fee authorized for chapter 13 debtor's counsel under Local Rule 5082-2 is $5,500, except as provided below. This amount may be requested in cases in which debtor’s counsel and the debtor enter into the Court-Approved Retention Agreement. In cases in which debtor’s counsel and the debtor enter into the Court-Approved Retention Agreement as well as the Addendum to the Court-Approved Retention Agreement for Mortgage Modification Program, debtor’s counsel will be presumptively entitled to additional Flat Fees on the terms described in the Addendum.	05/28/2025
	General Order No. 25-01 Filing Fees Owed in Prior Cases	04/15/2025
	General Order No. 24-03 Appointment to Bankruptcy Court Pro Bono Committee	09/18/2024
	General Order No. 24-02 Vacating General Order 22-2 regarding the adoption of Interim Bankruptcy Rule 1020 Implementing the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act The Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act expired on June 21, 2024. Official Form 101, question 13, and Official Form 201, question 8, were revised to revert the options and language in those questions to how they stood after the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA) was enacted effective February 2020. Updated forms, dated 06/24, are available on the court's website. Therefore, General Order 22-2 is hereby vacated.	07/29/2024
	General Order No. 24-01 Appointment to Bankruptcy Court Pro Bono Committee N. Neville Reed is appointed to the Pro Bono Committee for a three-year term, replacing Laura McNally who has resigned.	07/29/2024
	General Order No. 23-02 Appointments to Bankruptcy Court Pro Bono Committee	08/21/2023
	General Order No. 23-01 Members of Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee	01/19/2023
	General Order No. 22-03 Vacating Amended General Orders Nos. 20-03 and 20-05	11/03/2022
	General Order No. 22-04 Coronavirus/COVID-19 Protocols	11/03/2022
	General Order No. 22-01 Mandatory Screening Implementation Plan	05/25/2022
	General Order No. 20-03 Sixth Amended VACATED Court Proceedings During COVID-19 Public Emergency	04/19/2022
	General Order No. 20-05 Second Amended VACATED Trials and Evidentiary Hearings During COVID-19 Public Emergency	03/15/2022
	General Order No. 21-01 Appointment to Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee Nancy A. Peterman is appointed a member of the Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee, replacing Joe Graham who has resigned.	07/21/2021
	General Order No. 20-08 Appointments to Bankruptcy Court Pro Bono Committee	08/20/2020
	General Order No. 20-07 Vacating General Order 03-16 regarding rejection of all petitions that do not comply with Bankruptcy Rule 1006 which states that all petitions filed must be accompanied by the appropriate filing fee or an application for paying filing fees in installments Dated: July 09, 2020	07/09/2020
	General Order No. 20-06 Pro Bono Committee	06/18/2020
	General Order No. 01-04 - Amended	05/26/2020
	General Order No. 20-04 Adoption of Amended Interim Bankruptcy Rule 1020 Implementing the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (amended as required by the CARES Act)	04/21/2020
	General Order No. 20-02 Appointment to Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee Joe Graham is appointed a member of the Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee, replacing David Cleary who has been appointed a bankruptcy judge.	02/24/2020
	General Order No. 19-01 Members of Bankruptcy Court Rules Advisory Committee	01/22/2019

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