Should I Oppose the Chapter 13 Trustee's Motion to Dismiss

The BKBlog had this post the other day:


As you may know, Chapter 13 cases function as payment plans whereby you send your Chapter 13 trustee a monthly payment and the trustee disburses those funds to creditors.

Since Chapter 13 cases usually last five years it is not surprising that sometimes a debtor may fall behind on payments, even if the payments are made through an automatic payroll deduction.
A certain percentage of my Chapter 13 clients will fall behind because of illness, job loss, family emergencies, or an employer's failure to send in withheld funds. Sometimes employers stop withholding funds for no particular reason.

Whatever the cause if you fall behind on your payment schedule to the Chapter 13 trustee, you will eventually face a trustee "Motion to Dismiss." In the Northern District of Georgia, each of our three trustees use a computer system that periodically produces reports identifying cases that have gone delinquent and the system thereafter spits out a form motion to dismiss.
A motion to dismiss may also arise if claims (usually tax claims) come in higher than expected, thereby causing the plan to run more than 60 months.

What should you do if you receive a Motion to Dismiss in your case? More on Should I Oppose the Chapter 13 Trustee's Motion to Dismiss