Consumer Bankruptcy Journal Fall 2015 | Page 69

Form Modernization Overview

Official Form 106Dec

Overview:
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Official Form
106Dec, Declaration About an Individual Debtor’s Schedules, replaces Official Form 6, Declaration Concerning
Debtor’s Schedules, in cases of individual debtors.
New Form Elements:

The form, which is to be signed by the debtor and filed with the debtor’s schedules, deletes the Declaration and Signature of Bankruptcy
Petition Preparer (BPP). Instead, the debtor is directed to complete and file Official Form 119, Bankruptcy Petition Preparer’s Notice,
Declaration, and Signature, if a BPP helped fill out the bankruptcy forms.
Because the form applies only to individual debtors, it no longer contains the Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury on Behalf of a
Corporation or Partnership. It also deletes from the declaration the phrase “to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief” in
order to conform to the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1746. The need to total the number of pages is removed from the form.

REVISED – The language
has been revised, now
referencing Debtor 1 and
Debtor 2 in the caption.
The style also matches
the 2015 form changes
for modernized captions.

NEW – An amended
checkbox has been added
to the form

NEW – This is a new
section to list the name of
an individual who filled
out information
pertaining to the filing on
the debtor’s behalf.

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