You are here

08-2 GENERAL ORDER No. 3 - Adoption of Interim Bankruptcy Rule 1007-I

WHEREAS, the National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-438, amending 11 U.S.C. ยง 707(b)(2)(D), providing temporary exclusion from the application of the means test for certain National Guard and Reserve members of the Armed Forces of the United States, becomes effective December 19, 2008; and

WHEREAS, there is insufficient time before the Act becomes effective to promulgate rules to implement the Act;

THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED:

Interim Bankruptcy Rule 1007-1 applies to all cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin beginning December 19, 2008, and thereafter, until further order of this court.

Dated: December 19, 2008