How to Put a Client Through Bankruptcy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Put a Client Through Bankruptcy

If your client has positively no assets whatever beyond what he has given you for his fees, he may be able to take the pauper's oath and file his petition without court fees. Otherwise, however, you should obtain from him for the filing fees of the petition, thirty dollars. Of this amount the clerk receives ten dollars, the referee fifteen dollars, and the trustee five dollars. You will also be obliged later to pay the referee ten dollars f...