Just a quick question for those well versed in this subject. Did Nancy take extra time for Phil due to the last meeting being cancelled upon or because most of the documents that he submitted had some inconsistencies?
Also at the end when Phil and his lawyer stated why his business expense is 5k and they explained why - I literally didn't catch how his business expense is that high. Only numbers I heard were groceries, cell phone, and all the money he gets from PayPal and other websites. I didn't hear him once mention how 5k was explained.
I hope on the next meeting they dive into that further.
We don't know if she applied even more scrutiny to his case because of his no-show, but she definitely spent by far the most time on his case than any of the other ones scheduled that day. The $5k number is tricky because it shows up twice in Phil's documents: the one we're all interested in is on a form called Monthly Income and Expenses Statement, where it breaks down his
business's numbers, and is still unexplained. The other $5k is on his main Bankruptcy Petition, and
is broken down into various expenses, groceries, mortgage and tax payments, etc. This is the one Phil and his lawyer were pretending the creditor was asking about and that they had ‘already explained’.
I'll just show some screenshots of how those numbers fit together:
From the Monthly Income and Expenses Statement we get an average monthly net income of $3,990.69
That is his average monthly income from the last 6 months ($9,234.53) minus his
unexplained average business expenses ($5,243.84).
He takes the average net income and adds it to Kat's ($1,087.23) on the Bankruptcy Petition's Schedule I: Your Income section:

So he now has $5,077.92, from which he subtracts another $5k number, in the Schedule J: Your Expenses section:

to reach the famous negative 35 dollars per month income.