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REDACTMENT - RULE 9037

REDACTMENT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personally identifiable information of Debtors must be redacted before filing or submitting to the Trustee's office. Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9037 requires:

 

"[Any] filing with the court that contains an individual's social security number, taxpayer-identification number, or birth date, the name of the individual, other than the debtor, known to be and identified as a minor, or a financial-account number, a party or nonparty making the filing may include only:

  1.        The last four digits of the social security number and                    taxpayer identification number;

  2.        The year of the individual's birth;

  3.        The minor's initials; and

  4.        The last four digits of the financial-account number."

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