What's New
Amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Effective September 18, 2009, significant
changes were made to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to
streamline procedures and to ensure consistency amongst Trustees.
One of these changes is in relation to surplus income payments.
The legislative changes now require that if your income exceeds a
base amount set by the Superintendent of bankruptcy, you will be
required to make surplus payments for a set number of 21 months
for a first time bankruptcy and 36 months for a second time
bankruptcy. The Trustee has no professional discretion in
setting the length of time for making surplus payments as under
the previous legislation.
Please contact one of our Trustees to discuss
how the above will affect you and other options available to
remedy your financial problems.
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