{"id":4747,"date":"2011-08-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:41:47","slug":"is-the-information-on-my-bankruptcy-petition-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/staging\/8350\/is-the-information-on-my-bankruptcy-petition-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Information on My Bankruptcy Petition Private?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is the Information On My Bankruptcy Petition Private?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gKsx0QqyhKY?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many, <a title=\"Filing Bankruptcy in North Carolina\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/bankruptcy\/\">filing bankruptcy<\/a> can be a very stressful, emotional and embarrassing time in your life.\u00a0 Ask any bankruptcy attorney, and they will tell you this is a question they are asked quite often. Most people would prefer to not tell the world of their financial problems and keep the information in their bankruptcy private. However, bankruptcy is a public filing and is a matter of public record.<\/p>\n<h3>So what does public record mean?<\/h3>\n<p>Public record usually refers to any information that is filed and\/or maintained by a government agency, such as a court house. When you file for bankruptcy, your case is assigned to a district of the <a title=\"United States Bankruptcy Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/FederalCourts\/Bankruptcy.aspx\">United State Bankruptcy Court<\/a>. Your bankruptcy then becomes Public Record and the information in your bankruptcy is made available to the public. However, certain information in your bankruptcy, such as social security numbers, loan numbers and other identifiers are kept private and cannot be accessed by the public. Federal Bankruptcy law requires that notice of your bankruptcy case must be sent to all your creditors. This includes every individual and business owed, as well as any co-signor(s) of loans.<\/p>\n<p>The chances of your family, co-workers, friends and neighbors finding out you?ve filed bankruptcy are unlikely, unless you owe them money, they co-signed on a loan for you, or they specifically go looking for it. We are also asked all the time whether or not bankruptcy will appear in the local newspaper. The answer is, it depends where you live. Some local papers will run a list of people who have filed bankruptcy. However, if a paper is running a list of people who filed bankruptcy then the chances are the paper doesn&#8217;t have a high readership anyways.<\/p>\n<p>It?s important to remember you are not alone facing financial hardships. You?re filing bankruptcy to take control of your financial situation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, filing bankruptcy can be a very stressful, emotional and embarrassing time in your life.\u00a0 Ask any bankruptcy attorney, and they will tell you this is a question they are asked quite often. Most people would prefer to not tell the world of their financial problems and keep the information in their bankruptcy private. &#8230; <a title=\"Is the Information on My Bankruptcy Petition Private?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duncanlawonline.com\/staging\/8350\/is-the-information-on-my-bankruptcy-petition-private\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is the Information on My Bankruptcy Petition Private?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-bankruptcy-basics","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Bankruptcy Public Record? | Duncan Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bankruptcy is public record, but your neighbors likely won&#039;t find out. 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