When filing chapter 7 bankruptcy who decides what is exempt, as far as house hold items/pets etc?
Considering filing bankruptcy. Attorney gave me a paper to fill out stating evey thing we own. Right down to pets, and clothes. I did some research and found our state allows up to ,500 in house items to be exempt along with animals. I do not understand how they can even get by with asking you to list your pets as part of what you own, or your personal clothes. I may see such if you were raising animals for resell, or if you had real expensive clothing, or a movie star who some one else may want to say they own a piece of such and such clothing etc. But if this were the case those people would not be considering bankruptcy in the first place. As for the house items who makes the decisions as to what is exempt and what is not. I know my house items will not exceed the allotment in our state, but still I am curious about such.