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By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)

Three-month delay in completing bare-bones petition. When the Chapter 13 debtor filed a skeletal petition, her motion for more time to complete schedules, statement and plan was denied, with no cause found for extending time after three-month delay, and show cause hearing was set to determine if case should be dismissed with 180-day bar to refiling. In re Ward, 610 B.R. 804 (Bankr. W.D. Pa. 2020).

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