District guide · W.D. Tex.

Petition prep for the Western District of Texas

W.D. Tex. filed 7,631 consumer cases in 2025 across five divisions — San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Waco, and Midland — and it runs on machinery of its own: a District Form Chapter 13 Plan, a Declaration for Electronic Filing that must be its own docket entry, and a counseling certificate due with the petition. We prepare Chapter 7 and 13 cases filing-ready to exactly these requirements, in your own software, for your review and signature — with bilingual English/Spanish intake that matters from San Antonio to El Paso.

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The district at a glance

Five divisions — San Antonio (headquarters), Austin, El Paso, Waco, Midland — assigned by the debtor's 180-day domicile under Local Rule 1002-1
2025 consumer filings: 7,631 (5,053 Chapter 7 · 2,575 Chapter 13) — nearly 93% of the district's docket is consumer work
Filing fees: $338 for Chapter 7, $313 for Chapter 13; amending creditor schedules or the matrix costs $34
NextGen CM/ECF with central PACER sign-on; 50 MB PDF cap; Rule 9037 redaction before filing
All consumer §341 meetings are virtual (Zoom), district-wide since June 2024
Chapter 13 benchmark (no-look) fees: $4,900 in Austin, $4,500 in the other divisions — attorney economics that make efficient prep worth real money

Official court website: txwb.uscourts.gov

Flat per-case pricing, W.D. Tex. or anywhere

$300 personal Chapter 7 · $400 business Chapter 7 · $400 Chapter 13 without plan · $500 with the District Form Plan drafted. No retainer, no minimum, no long-term contract — and if the trustee kicks something back, we fix it at no charge.

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District details verified August 2026 against the court's Local Rules (eff. Feb. 3, 2025), Standing Orders 25-03/25-04/25-06, the court's forms and trustee pages, the U.S. Trustee Program's §341 requirements and means-testing tables, and the AO's CY2025 filing statistics. Rules, forms, trustee assignments, and median-income figures change — always confirm against current sources at txwb.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.

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Paralegal Bankruptcy Services is a 100% U.S.-based bankruptcy paralegal firm working exclusively for licensed attorneys and law firms. Chapter 7 preparation is $300 per case for a personal filing and $400 for a business filing, or $410 with extended case management through discharge. Chapter 13 is $400 per case, or $500 with plan drafting. Chapter 11 is billed at $90 per hour, and our general rate for overflow, amendments, and routine work is $70 per hour. An emergency skeleton petition to trigger the automatic stay is $175, with full schedules to follow. Chapter 7 cases come back in 7 days and Chapter 13 in 10, once we have a complete intake package. Our paralegals draft directly inside your Best Case, Jubilee, or NextChapter account, so nothing is re-keyed. We carry errors and omissions and cyber liability insurance, and our team of six is bilingual in English and Spanish.

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