Posts Tagged 11 USC 341

Friday morning was the Section 341 meeting in Tampa for my bankruptcy. In layman’s terms, it’s also called the “meeting of creditors.” It’s a hearing with the trustee appointed by the court to decide what I get to keep and what I have to part with. It’s also supposed to give creditors the opportunity to object or ask questions.

Fortunately for me (?), none of my creditors showed up. The meeting took all of five minutes or so. Now I wait for the next three months to see what happens and what I’ll have to give up before the discharge.

The meetings occur in large batches. The trustee works her way through a tall stack of documents on the desk, calling up each debtor for the routine series of questions. One of them provides interest: “What caused your bankruptcy?” Also covered is the conduct of one’s creditors—various questions that they ask responses to in order to make sure the creditors are abiding by the law in their collection processes (I learned quickly that Chase isn’t very good at abiding by the law in terms of their collection practices).

Since I was in town, I sent an email to a former colleague at HPS to see where they were headed for their Friday lunch (a weekly tradition), and joined up with them for a great time at the local Chili’s to catch up on what was happening in the working world before I headed back to Plant City.

I miss the job and I don’t. I miss the lunches.