Chapter:
Part II. Officers and Administration; Notices; Meetings; Examinations; Elections; Attorneys and Accountants
- Application. Fee applications must comply with the national fee guidelines promulgated by the Executive Office of the United States Trustee under 28 U.S.C. § 586(a)(3)(A)(i) and any Policy of the United States Trustee for Region 13 for Implementation of Fee Guidelines. Fee applications must be filed before the case is closed. An appointed trustee must notify his or her court approved professionals 14 days before the trustee files a final report so professionals may timely file an application. A professional must file a final fee application if the court approved interim compensation.
- Pre-Petition Retainers. Except in Chapter 7 cases, a fee application must be filed if the debtor’s attorney received a pre-petition bankruptcy retainer or payment from property of the debtor, or from property of a person or entity other than the debtor, even if no additional compensation is sought.
- Contents. All fee applications must contain a supporting exhibit, constructed from contemporaneously kept time records. The exhibit must state the dates services were performed, the number of hours spent on each task in tenths of an hour, a concise statement of the task, the identity of the individual performing the work, the relationship of the service to the estate, and the value thereof. If compensation for future services is sought, the application must state an estimate of the number of hours that will be expended for future services. All fee applications must state all fees previously approved to be paid to the applicant, including pre-petition payments, and all services and expenses to be compensated from any pre-petition retainer.
- Chapter 13 Cases. Applications for fees in Chapter 13 cases are governed by Appendix B.