Forms
Offical court forms approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States for use in all District Court/Bankruptcy Courts.
- Bankruptcy Filing Checklists for Chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13
- Bankruptcy Forms and Bankruptcy Forms Manual (For Chapter 13 Plans, use local form 3015-a. If Local Rules require, use local forms provided below.)
- Fort Worth National Archives’ Request form for Bankruptcy Cases Returned by Mail or Fax.
- Online request for National Archives
- B2500A: Summons in an Adversary Proceeding
- Proof of Claim - Form B410
- Supplemental Proof of Claim for CARES Forbearance Claim
- B-1040: Adversary Proceeding Cover Sheet
Local Forms
Official TXEB Forms
- 1007-b-6 : Verification of Creditor Matrix
- 1007-b-7 : Change in Schedule
- 2014: Order Approving the Employment of Professional or Firm
- 3007: Order Sustaining Debtors' Objection to Proof of Claim
- 3015-a: Chapter 13 Plan
- 3015-b: Order Confirming Chapter 13 Plan - for Plano Cases
- 3015-b: Order Confirming Chapter 13 Plan - for Beaumont or Tyler Cases
- 3015-c: Declaration of Debtor Regarding Status of Post-Petition Obligations as of Ch 13 Plan Confirmation Hearing
- 3015-d: Chapter 13 Motion to Modify Confirmed Chapter 13 Plan
- 3015-e: Order Modifying Confirmed Chapter 13 Plan and Granting Additional Award of Attorney's Fees - Unopposed
- 3015-f: Order Modifying Confirmed Chapter 13 Plan and Granting Additional Award of Attorney's Fees
- 3017.1: Order Conditionally Approving Debtor's Disclosure Statement; Fixing Time for Filing Acceptances or Rejections of Debtor's Proposed Ch 11 Plan and/or Objections to Confirmation of Proposed Plan and Setting Hearing to Consider Final Approval of Debtor's Disclosure Statement and Confirmation of Debtor's Proposed Ch 11 Plan.
- 4000-a : Order Establishing Deadline for Objection to Motion for Continuation (or Imposing) of Automatic Stay And Setting Possible Hearing Date on Such Motion
- 4000-b : Order Extending (or Imposing) Automatic Stay as Against All Creditors
- 4000-d : Order Regarding Status of Automatic Stay
- 4001: Order Granting Motion
- 4001-b: Declaration of Debtor Regarding Request to Pay Post-Petition Mortage Obligations Through Ch 13 Plan Modifications
- 4004-b: Notice of Plan Completion by Individual Debtors in a Ch 11 Case
- 4004-c: Statement of Debtor(s) Regarding Applicability of 11 U.S.C. 522(q) In a Chapter 12 or 13 Case
- 4004-d: Certification of Debtors Regarding Status of Domestic Support Obligations
- 7016: Exhibit List
- 9007-a: Order Granting Motion
- 9007-b: Order Granting Emergency Hearing
- 9007-c: Order Granting Expedited Hearing
- B-1 to Appendix 5005 (Declarations for Electronic Filing)
- B-2 to Appendix 5005 (Declarations for Electronic Filing)
- B-3 to Appendix 5005 (Declarations for Electronic Filing)
- Application for Unclaimed Funds
- Order Reopening Ch. 13 Case for Completion of Discharge Process
- Party Change of Address
Recommendations for Electronically Filed Documents
Electronically filed documents will be in the Portable Document Format (PDF) as is used by the Adobe Acrobat software product. For more information about this document format, please visit Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com.
PDF documents have a varietyof user controlled parameters. For all PDF documents filed with the court, the Court recommends the following:
- The PDF document shall not contain any hyperlinks or protection. If either of these features has been enabled, it will be rejected by the CM/ECF server.
- Each page of the PDF document shall be 8.5 X 11 inches in size. Pages may not be rotated to achieve the correct size.
- For PDF documents that contain scanned images, the image should be scanned using 300 X 300 dpi resolution and be in black-and-white mode only.
- For PDF documents that contain textual data, the fonts used must either be in the approved font list, or be embedded in the PDF document. The list of approved fonts is: Arial (Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic), Courier (Regular, Bold, Oblique, and Bold Oblique), Times New Roman (Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic), Symbol, ZapDingbats.
- If you use some form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), be careful of handwritten text. It is possible for the handwritten text to be encoded using a non-approved font.
