The district at a glance
- Four divisional offices — Alexandria, Richmond, Norfolk, and Newport News — spanning northern Virginia through Hampton Roads
- Chief Judge Brian F. Kenney, with Charri S. Stewart as Clerk of Court
- Consumer filings: 12,038 total — 7,097 Chapter 7 and 4,931 Chapter 13, a 41.0% Chapter 13 share
- Filing fees: $338 for Chapter 7, $313 for Chapter 13
- Chapter 13 plan is the court's own form, published as Exhibit 1 to the local bankruptcy rules — LBR 3015-2(A) calls it "the only acceptable form", so not Official Form 113
- Local bankruptcy rules current as of the December 1, 2025 amendments, with earlier 2025 revisions in July and January
- §341 meetings of creditors run by Zoom, with a dedicated court page for them
- Plan and Related Motions due 14 days after commencement, or 14 days after an order converting the case to Chapter 13
Official court website: vaeb.uscourts.gov
Flat per-case pricing, E.D. Va. or anywhere
$300 personal Chapter 7 · $400 business Chapter 7 · $400 Chapter 13 without plan · $500 with the court's 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 Bankruptcy Rules as amended effective December 1, 2025 (LBR 3015-2 and its Exhibits 1 and 2), and the court's published divisional offices and Zoom §341 page; filing counts are from Administrative Office consumer filing data. Chapter 13 trustee assignments are confirmed per case rather than listed here, and median-income figures come from the U.S. Trustee Program's means-testing tables and are deliberately not reproduced, because both change and a stale figure is worse than none. Always confirm against current sources at vaeb.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.