WHAT IS A VIRTUAL PLEADING?	The simplest description is that a virtual pleading will never be created in paper format. It will only exist as an electronic entry on the bankruptcy case’s docket or the adversary proceeding’s docket. With a virtual pleading, the docket entry itself contains all the required language that used to be in the official paper pleading. Pleadings will be assigned a document number on the case’s docket report, but the document number will not be a hyperlink because there is no .pdf image to view – the docket entry is the pleading. Other (non-pleading) entries may or may not be assigned a document number.
WHAT KINDS OF PLEADINGS ARE VIRTUAL?	Examples of pleadings and other entries that are virtual in USBC for the EDKY include, but are not limited to the following: Ø Notice Appointing the Trustee Ø Order Granting the Application to Pay in Installments Ø Orders to Amend Ø Requests made by the Court to the BNC for paper 341 meeting notices to be mailed Ø 341 Meeting Minutes and Trustee’s Report of No Distribution Ø Trustee’s Notice of Sufficient Assets
WHO FILES VIRTUAL PLEADINGS?	The same entity that filed the paper pleading in the past. Using our above examples, Ch. 7 trustees would file the virtual no distribution reports and court staff would file virtual orders.
WHAT DOES A VIRTUAL PLEADING LOOK LIKE?	In this example, there is a document number, but it is NOT a hyperlink to a .pdf image because this notice IS the ORDER. NOTE THIS LANGUAGE!! NOTE: There is a red sentence indicating that this entry is the official ORDER of the court.