All of our Chapter 13 Plans have merge tags that pull information from your case directly into your plan. Each tag has a set of instructions, which describe the logic within the app, so that you can easily understand how this tag is populated. Below is a list of your plan specific tags with their corresponding instructions.
(Hint: These instructions are for the North Carolina Middle Plan. If you have a district specific plan, you can search the Help Center for the article related to your plan.)
Line 2.1 [NCMB.ACP]
If the case is below median income insert:
[x] 36 months
[o] 60 months
If the case is above median income insert:
[o] 36 months
[x] 60 months
3.3d [NCMB.DSO]
List any domestic support obligation claims.
3.4 [NCMB.Priority]
If there are any any priority claims that are not domestic support obligation claims, insert here
4.1 [NCMB.Res.Prop]
This tag will consist of three different tag tables.
If there are no claims being added to any of the three tables, check the checkbox for section a only and don’t show sections b, c, or d. If there are any claims being added to any of the three tag tables, leave the checkbox for a blank.
If there are any secured mortgage claims attached to the debtor’s residential property where the intent is NOT to surrender and the treatment is NOT to Pay mortgage in full through plan, check the box for section b and add the claim to the table under section b. Do not list arrearage claims as separate claims.
If there are any secured mortgage claims attached to the residential property where the intent is not to surrender and the treatment is to Pay mortgage in full through plan, check the box for section c and add the claim to the table under section c.
If there are any claims attached the debtor’s residential property where the intent is to avoid, check the checkbox for section d and add the claim to the table under section d.
4.2 [NCMB.Non.Res.Prop]
This tag will consist of three different tag tables.
If there are no claims being added to any of the three tables, check the checkbox for section a only and don’t show sections b, c, or d. If there are any claims being added to any of the three tag tables, leave the checkbox for a blank.
If there are any secured mortgage claims attached to property that is NOT the debtor’s residential property where the intent is NOT to surrender and the treatment is NOT to Pay mortgage in full through plan, check the box for section b and add the claim to the table under section b. Do not list arrearage claims as separate claims.
If there are any secured mortgage claims attached to property that is NOT the residential property where the intent is not to surrender and the treatment is to Pay mortgage in full through plan, check the box for section c and add the claim to the table under section c.
If there are any claims attached property that is NOT the debtor’s residential property where the intent is to avoid, check the checkbox for section d and add the claim to the table under section d.
4.3 [NCMB.Secured]
This tag will consist of four different tag tables.
If there are no claims being added to any of the four tables, check the checkbox for section a only and don’t show sections b, c, d, or e. If there are any claims being added to any of the four tag tables, leave the checkbox for a blank.
If there are any secured claims on vehicles where the secured claim is being paid outside the plan, but the secured vehicles arrearages are being paid inside the plan, check the checkbox for section b and add the claim to the table below section b.
If there are any secured vehicle claims where the secured balance is the SAME as the balance in Schedule D and where the box for Excluded from 11 U.S.C. § 506 is not checked and the intent is NOT to surrender and the treatment is to pay inside the plan, check the checkbox for section c and add the claim to the table below section c.
If there are any secured claims where the secured balance is the SAME as the balance in Schedule D and where the box for Excluded from 11 U.S.C. § 506 is checked and the intent is NOT to surrender and the treatment is to pay inside the plan, check the checkbox for section d and add the claim to the table below section d.
If there are any claims attached to an asset that’s not real property, where the intent is to avoid, check the checkbox for section e and list the claim in the table below section e.
5 [NCMB.Surrender]
If there are no claims where the intent is to surrender, insert:
[x] None
If there are claims where the intent is to surrender, insert:
[x] None
If there are claims where the intent is to surrender, insert:
[o] None
[x] The Debtor Proposes to Surrender to Each Creditor Listed Below the Collateral that Secures the Creditor’s Claim.
6.2 [NCMB.Unsec.Special]
If there are no unsecured claims with special treatment saved to the claim, insert:
[x] None. If none is checked, the rest of Section 6.2 need not be completed and reproduced.
If there are unsecured claims with special treatment saved to the claim, insert:
[o] None.
[x] Allowed Nonpriority Unsecured Claims Listed Below are Separately Classified.
7 [NCMB.Lease]
There are two tables for this tag.
If there are no claims being added to any of the two tables, check the checkbox for section a only and don’t show sections b or c. If there are any claims being added to any of the two tag tables, leave the checkbox for a blank.
If there are any leases where the intent is to reject, check the box for section b and add the claim in the table below that section. Do not lease the lease arrears as a separate claims.
If there are any leases where the intent is to assume, check the box for section c and add the claim in the table below that section. Do not lease the lease arrears as a separate claims.