Office "required field" fix

HERE IS A GENERIC FIX FROM ATTORNEY C.K. BELHAUSEN OR USERS WHO GET THE ERROR MESSAGE “Office is a required field” (Top Form users please see this message.)

BestCase and New Hope users will not get the error. TopForm users should call tech support or carefully apply the patch at http://www.kyeb.uscourts.gov/kyeb/CMECF/topform.htm

Any user who gets the error can either use the:

“Open a BK Case”

selection from the CF menu and manually enter the required information,

Add the Division / Office code to the Debtor.txt file that their bankruptcy filing program creates for each case. To do so follow these instructions for each case

(ADVANCED USERS ONLY):

1. Open the case file (the text header file that your program prepares for you)

Open New Bankruptcy Case

Enter the name of the case file ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒< - - - - open the file that goes here

Example: c:Debtor.txt

Enter the name of the petition file ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Example: c:Petition.pdf

Enter the name of the matrix file ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Example: c:Creditor.txt

Enter the name of the Chap13 Plan file ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

Example: c:Plan.pdf

2. It will look something like this

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555|||3100 Roberts Dr ……

3. Insert the proper code for the Division between the two vertical lines immediately preceding the mailing address of the debtor:

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555|| INSERT NUMBER HERE |3100 Roberts Dr ……

If it is a joint filing there will be two lines where the division number must be entered.

4. It will look like this:

Ashland :

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||1|3100 Roberts Dr ……

Covington :

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||2|3100 Roberts Dr ……

Frankfort :

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||3|3100 Roberts Dr ……

Fayette:

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||5|3100 Roberts Dr ……

Corbin:

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||6|3100 Roberts Dr ……

Pikeville:

stat|Collier TopForm|6.3.0|021400|i|n|7|p|c|v||n|1|1|1|n|n||||
debt|db|JOHN|J|DOE|||555-55-5555||7|3100 Roberts Dr ……

5. Save the changes to the file in the same text format that it was already in.

6. If you did everything correctly, when you upload the case you should be assigned a case number in the correct division (eg. – Fayette 02-54xxx)