Hastings v. United States Trustee (In Re Agyekum)

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• holding that bankruptcy petition preparer use of a bankruptcy handbook which provided information about the bankruptcy process, information on what to consider when filing bankruptcy and a glossary of bankruptcy terms constituted the unauthorized practice of law
• holding that bankruptcy petition preparer’s use of a bankruptcy handbook that provided information about the bankruptcy process, information on what to consider when filing bankruptcy, and a glossary of bankruptcy terms constituted the unauthorized practice of law
• affirming lower court’s determination that a bankruptcy petition preparer fee could not exceed $125.00
• lower court correctly limited fee to $125.00 according to the Northern District of California’s Bankruptcy Petition Preparer Guidelines
• preparer’s use of questionnaire which solicited information he then used to complete petitions was unauthorized practice of law
• \The 'InfoForm Questionnaire' functioned to solicit information to be used to complete bankruptcy schedules. Soliciting information from a debtor which is then typed into schedules constitutes the unauthorized practice of law\

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