: Bankruptcy Alberta

Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006

I claimed personal bankruptcy in Alberta in 2005. Because I had not met the Trustees Conditions I received a conditional order of discharge ( for payments to the trustees of about $1400).

In January 2006, I met these conditions, paid in full the amount owing, and received an Order of Discharge.

From a discussion I had with CRA they informed me that the Trustees had not dicharged. As a result my GST cheques are going to be sent to my trustee. Can the trustee legally still claim any GST cheques sent to them from the Government in relation to me just because they haven't discharged themselves?.

1 Comments:

At 10:53 AM, Barton Goth, GCO Inc. Bankruptcy Trustees said…

This is quite normal. There is always a delay between the time you are discharged and the time the Trustee is discharged as he is required to wrap up the file. One of the major duties in doing so is to distribute monies and the trustee must not only distribute monies but wait until all the funds have cleared the bank. Therefore if one creditor delays in depositing the cheque or one cheque is lost in the mail this process can take more time.

Realistically this doesn’t have a great impact on you. The key thing for you is that you have been discharged. Yes there may be a couple of GST cheques sent to your trustee, but there is no concern as to what will be done with these monies, your trustee will simply redirect this to you.