Today, I want to answer the question if I’m incarcerated or a loved one is incarcerated and they really need to file bankruptcy, can you file bankruptcy if you’re in prison or in jail? The short answer to that question is certainly.

Being incarcerated does not disqualify you from filing a bankruptcy case. Frequently what has to happen though is you need somebody on the outside to have a power of attorney for you so that they can move the documents around, sometimes sign on your behalf or appear for you in meetings of creditors, but sometimes, that’s not even necessary.

You can fill out the forms while you are incarcerated. You can sometimes do a written response to the questions that the trustee will ask at your meeting with the trustee, and you can do your credit counseling course and your financial management course in writing in order to get all the benefits of the bankruptcy law.

So while it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, you can file bankruptcy while you’re incarcerated.