Will an attorney notify creditors in my bankruptcy? How?

Upon filing of your BK, all of your creditors will be notified by the Bankruptcy Court Clerk. This will also stop any garnishment in progress. "Filing your case" are the operative words here.

The National Noticing center does. Not all attorneys have a policy of noticing themselves stop a garnishment earlier. Especially the discount attorneys.

The court has a noticing system in place to send out information to creditors, but it does not happen overnight. When there is a wage garnishment that needs to be stopped, most bankruptcy attorneys have a system in place to provide for expedited notice that will allow the garnishment to stop immediately. There are many other advantages to having a bankruptcy attorney representing you as bankruptcy is a lot more than filling out some simple forms and doing 5th grade math.

When your case is filed, it includes a list of your creditors, their addresses, and amounts owed. Each creditor listed will receive a Notice of the Bankruptcy, this is typically mailed out by the court. However, in a case of a garnishment, I will typically not only list the creditor and their counsel but I will also fax a copy of the Notice to the Creditor and Counsel as soon as I file the case. The mailing done by the court takes about a week. By faxing I can provide almost instant notice alerting the creditor that they must now take steps to withdraw the garnishment order. Notifying the sheriff's office or the employer typically has not yielded results for me since both of these third parties are waiting for the paperwork that needs to come from the creditor or their attorneys. Unfortunately, also some of the sheriff's office are slow in processing the withdrawal and since there are multiple parties in the process this may take a few days, unfortunately sometimes weeks. Of course you supposed to and typically do receive a refund of any money taken once the case is filed.

The court will notify your creditors (for some strange reason, it's felt that having the bankrupt or the bankrupt's attorney notify creditors might be abused - like sending the notice without filing the bankruptcy). The garnishment should stop immediately upon filing. Your lawyer will notify your employer (or Paycheck whoever pays you), the creditor and the court handling the garnishment. Sometimes, it takes a while for word to get to the proper department and your lawyer will handle getting any post filing garnishments paid back to you.

Retaining a lawyer to advise and represent you in a bankruptcy is almost always worth the investment. It is not the lawyer, but the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court, who gives a standard formal notice to all creditors. Have your lawyer notify the creditor doing the garnishment and your payroll office, and also the Clerk of the Court in which the garnishment is filed as soon as your bankruptcy petition is filed with the (federal) bankruptcy court. Good Luck.

The Bankruptcy attorney and/or the Clerk's office mails notification to the Creditors.

You need to list all creditors with addresses. Once the case is filed, the court itself gives official notice to creditors who then must stop all collection activity.

Yes the lawyer should help notify the creditors, especially ones who are garnishing wages; the rest will be notified by the court. Yes you should use an attorney to prevent problems.