Chapter 12/13 Discharges

Official Procedure Last Change July 1, 2021

General Information

The trustee shall file a Notice of Plan Completion after all payments have been received.
Within 30 days of the trustee’s Notice of Plan Completion or prior to the trustee’s Final Report, whichever is later, the debtor shall file both a Motion for Entry of Chapter 12/13 Discharge and, for each Debtor, a Certificate of Eligibility. Failure to timely file the Motion and/ or Certificate may result in the issuance of an Order of No Discharge. (Certification of Eligibility and DSO Notice are not required to be filed in non-individual Chapter 12 cases. Only the Motion for Entry of Discharge is required.)
A separate Certificate of Eligibility must be submitted for each Debtor in a joint case. Certificates of Eligibility for each Debtor may be filed either as an attachment to or concurrently with the Motion for Entry of Chapter 12/13 Discharge.
The discharge will be issued by the court 21 days after all the above documents have been filed, if there is no objection.