**PENDING CHANGES IN THE BANKRUPTCY FORMS - EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 1, 2015**

Most Official Bankruptcy Forms are scheduled to be replaced with substantially revised, reformatted and renumbered versions effective December 1, 2015.  The revised forms were approved by the Judicial Conference at its September 17, 2015 meeting. 

These new forms are part of a forms modernization project that began in 2008 by the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules. Among other things, the new forms introduce different versions of case opening forms for individual debtors and non-individual debtors. The new forms are easier for debtors to understand and complete, and are designed to work with scheduled enhancements to the federal courts’ case opening and electronic case management system.

Some of the modernized forms are already in effect and will simply be renumbered on December 1, 2015. Other forms were published for public comment in August 2013 or 2014 and have been approved by the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules and the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (the Standing Committee).

For additional information and complete listing of new/revised forms and instructions, please visit:

http://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/pending-rules-amendments/pending-changes-bankruptcy-forms