The district at a glance
- Seven divisions — Dallas, Fort Worth, Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, San Angelo, Wichita Falls — with staffed clerk's offices only in Dallas, Fort Worth, Amarillo, and Lubbock
- 2025 filings: 12,785 total (7,316 Chapter 7 · 4,572 Chapter 13), 88% of them consumer cases
- Filing fees: $338 for Chapter 7, $313 for Chapter 13 — and amending Schedules D/E/F or the creditor list costs $34 each time, which makes getting the matrix right the first time worth real money
- NextGen CM/ECF with individual upgraded PACER accounts; shared logins prohibited
- All consumer §341 meetings are held by Zoom (cases filed on or after May 1, 2024)
Official court website: txnb.uscourts.gov
Flat per-case pricing, N.D. Tex. or anywhere
$300 personal Chapter 7 · $400 business Chapter 7 · $400 Chapter 13 without plan · $500 with the district plan drafted. No retainer, no minimum, no long-term contract.
District details verified August 2026 against the court's Local Bankruptcy Rules (rev. Dec. 1, 2025), General Order 2026-01 (eff. Feb. 11, 2026), the court's forms and fee pages, the trustees' published procedures, and the U.S. Trustee Program's means-testing tables. Rules, forms, trustee assignments, and median-income figures change — always confirm against current sources at txnb.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.