The district at a glance
- Four divisions — Southern (Birmingham), Northern (Huntsville), Eastern (Anniston), Western (Tuscaloosa) — with five bankruptcy judges led by Chief Judge Jennifer H. Henderson, alongside Judges Tamara O. Mitchell, James J. Robinson, Clifton R. Jessup Jr., and D. Sims Crawford
- Consumer filings: 10,102 total — 3,938 Chapter 7 and 6,158 Chapter 13, a 61.0% Chapter 13 share
- Filing fees: $338 for Chapter 7, $313 for Chapter 13
- Chapter 13 plan is the district's own fillable form, required by Local Rule 3015-1(a) to be substantially complied with — not Official Form 113
- Local rules effective March 1, 2023, with the Chapter 13 plan rule itself effective December 1, 2017
- A standing Chapter 13 trustee per division, not per judge — and division-specific administrative orders on top of the district-wide set
- Hearing format is set by the notice for each matter: judges may schedule by telephone or video as well as in person, with the access information stated in the notice rather than fixed district-wide
Official court website: alnb.uscourts.gov
Flat per-case pricing, N.D. Ala. or anywhere
$300 personal Chapter 7 · $400 business Chapter 7 · $400 Chapter 13 without plan · $500 with the district plan form drafted. No retainer, no minimum, no long-term contract — and if the trustee kicks something back because we got it wrong, we fix it at no charge.
District details verified August 2026 against the court's Local Rules (eff. March 1, 2023), its combined district-wide administrative orders, the district's own fillable Chapter 13 plan form and certificate of service form under LR 3015-1, and the trustees' published division offices; filing counts are from Administrative Office consumer filing data. Median-income figures come from the U.S. Trustee Program's means-testing tables and are deliberately not reproduced here, because they change with each revision and a stale number is worse than none. Rules, forms, division assignments and medians change — always confirm against current sources at alnb.uscourts.gov and justice.gov/ust. Services are provided exclusively to licensed attorneys and law firms. We are not a bankruptcy petition preparer and do not provide legal advice or services to the public.