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
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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:
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So he now has $5,077.92, from which he subtracts another $5k number, in the Schedule J: Your Expenses section:
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to reach the famous negative 35 dollars per month income.