Nowhere near enough information to either understand or answer your question.
There's no chapter of bankruptcy that requires you to give money to the court (perhaps you meant trustee), but which chapter did you file? Why were you seeing the Judge? Was there some sort of motion file? Did you properly exempt the 401k on your bankruptcy schedules?
Mark J. Markus, Attorney at Law
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