Ferm v. United States Trustee (In Re Crowe)

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• holding that it is the selling of services which subjects the bankruptcy petition preparer to the court’s jurisdiction for violations of § 110
• finding that author of instructional book on bankruptcy forms was a petition preparer within the meaning of § 110 because the author offered to prepare petitions for readers if they were unable to do so
• nonattorney who sold self-help bankruptcy book and also offered to then help book purchasers preparer documents for free was “compensated”
• a BPP who had been enjoined from practicing as such began selling bankruptcy instructional books, which the court found to be a “front” for services subject to regulation under § 110

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).