In Re Guttierez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that bankruptcy petition preparer flat fee cannot exceed $50
• noting bankruptcy court may not adjudicate criminal matters relating to concealment of assets belonging to bankruptcy estate but may refer matter for criminal investigation
• finding that $50.00 is the maximum flat fee
• describing “selecting how creditors would be treated and advis[ing] the debtor regarding what exemptions to claim and under which chapter to file” as examples of “legal advice”
• “Section 110 . . . effectively restrict[s] ‘petition preparers’ to rendering only ‘scrivening/typing’ services.”
• “Congress was also concerned that debtors would be at the mercy of fly-by-night ‘typing mills’ that would lull the unsuspecting public into thinking that they had the expertise to offer valuable legal (or at least quasi-legal) bankruptcy assistance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).