Reaffirmations

(Based on CM/ECF Version 2.2 and Netscape Version 4.7)

GENERAL

INFO.

 

Since reaffirmation agreements have original signatures that won’t be filed with the court, this is one of the documents that you will need to save for two years after the case is closed, pursuant to our new local rules and administrative procedures.  As the creditor, you may choose to save the original documents even longer (i.e. for the life of the contract).

 

Due to the requirement of signatures by several different parties, this is a pleading that you will need to scan to convert to .pdf format after obtaining all the necessary signatures.

 

 

 

HELP SCREENS

 

Help is available for most screens by clicking on the  button.  The help box will display describing the fields and what entry is required for the window you are currently viewing.

 

 

Click on the  button at the upper right hand corner of the screen or the  button to close the help screen.

 

 

 

STEP 1

 

Log in to the CM/ECF System using your ECF Login and Password if you aren’t already logged in.

 

NOTE:  After logging in, if you click on Netscape Navigator’s  (resize) button accidentally instead of clicking the minimize  button, or if you drag the sides to resize the Netscape window, there is a Netscape Navigator bug which will throw you out of your CM/ECF session and you will lose all the information that you have entered up to that point.  So, resize the window before you login!

 

 

 

STEP 2

 

Click on “Bankruptcy” in the blue menu bar at the top of the screen.

                                   

 

 

 

 

STEP 3

 

Click on the  hyperlink in the categories list.

 

 

 

STEP 4

 

The “Creditor Claimant Activity” case number screen will display next.  It may contain the case number of the last case you have been using during the current login session.

Change the case number if necessary, and then click the  button.  If you need to change the case number, enter the correct case number as
yy-nnnnn (including the hyphen).

 

NOTE:  If you changed the case number and entered it incorrectly, the system will display the following message regarding the case number format. 

 

 

Click the  button or the  button and try entering the case number again.

 

 

 

STEP 5

 

The “Creditor Claimant Activity” selection box appears.  Click on “Reaffirmation Agreement” to highlight and select it.

 

 

 

 

STEP 6

 

Click the  button.

 

 

 

STEP 7

 

You then have an opportunity to browse for and select the .pdf image of the “Reaffirmation Agreement”.

 

 

Follow the separate instructions for “Browsing For and Selecting the Correct .pdf Document” to find, open, review, and select the “Reaffirmation Agreement” .pdf image.

 

For the training case, the .pdf documents will be on the local “c:/” drive.

 

NOTE:  At your company, the .pdf documents may be stored on a network drive or on the “c:/” drive of a staff member’s computer.

 

 

 

.PDF WARNING MESSAGE

 

If you click on the  button to advance without attaching a .pdf document, a “Warning Message” will be displayed.

 

 

Click the  button to close the message.

 

You will then, once again, have the opportunity to browse to select the .pdf image of the document.

 

 

 

STEP 8

 

Two prompts will then display to provide the name of the creditor and the property upon which the debt is being reaffirmed.

 

 

Type in you company’s name and the description of the property.

 

 

 

STEP 9

 

Click the  button.

 

 

 

STEP 10

 

Since the installation of Version 2.2, occasional “non” screens have cropped up such as the example below.

 

 

When such a screen appears, simply click the  button.

 

 

 

FINAL DOCKET TEXT SCREEN

 

The “Docket Text: Final Text” window displays.

 

 

NOTE:  The “Attention!!” message shown above is to alert you to the fact that this is the point of no return!  This is the last opportunity to make any changes before the document is officially filed.  

 

 

 

NOTES RE: ERRORS MADE WHILE FILING

 

If the docket text is incorrect, click on the browser’s  button as many times as necessary to find the error and correct it.

 

NOTE:  You will not be able to use the  button to correct your errors if you are using Internet Explorer 5.5 because you will be thrown out of the system the 2nd time you click it.  You will need to click on the “Bankruptcy “ hyperlink in the main menu bar. 

 

 


 

Then, you will have to start filing the “Reaffirmation Agreement” all over again and you will have lost most of the information that you have entered.

 

NOTE:  If using Netscape Version 4.7, you can usually go backwards and forwards through the various screens using the browser’s “Back” and “Forward” buttons without losing any data as long as you make no changes.  But, if you make a change, the information on the screens from the point of the error forward will have to be re-entered after you have corrected the error because the information from the error forward will have been lost.  Also, if you back up to a screen earlier than the screen where you search for the .pdf document, you will lose the .pdf document and you will have to search for the .pdf document and select it all over again.

 

 

 

STEP 11

 

Click the  button to send the document to the court.

 

 

 

NOTICE OF

ELEC-

TRONIC FILING

 

The “Notice of Electronic Filing” will now display.  See the separate instructions regarding “Notices of Electronic Filing”.