Chapter 7 Trustee Kevin McCarthy

Chapter 7 Trustee Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy is one of the four Chapter 7 trustees in the Alexandria, Virginia, Bankruptcy court. When you file a bankruptcy case in Alexandria, the computer assigns you to one of the four trustees.
Trustee Kevin McCarthy doesn’t post his picture.
Lawyers work as Chapter 7 trustees part-time, on commission.  Besides his trustee work, he’s a partner in the law firm of McCarthy and White, PC, located in McLean, VA. He focuseses his legal work on creditors’ rights. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1968 and Georgetown Law in 1974.
As a Chapter 7 Trustee, he has two sets of bosses.  The US Justice Department, through the Office of the United States Trustee.  And the two Bankruptcy Judges here, Judge Brian F. Kenney and Judge Klinette H. Kindred.
We paid a $338.00 filing fee when we filed your bankruptcy case. Sixty dollars of that went to Trustee McCarthy. For each case, including yours, he gets an additional $60.00 that is indirectly collected from Chapter 11 bankruptcies. (Congress thinks the bankruptcy courts need to raise enough in fees to pay for themselves.  No other part of the federal court system does that.)
As your Chapter 7 Trustee, Kevin McCarthy is in charge of your bankruptcy hearing, which is called the “meeting of creditors.” There are very, very rarely any creditors at the meeting of creditors.  So the Chapter 7 Trustee asks the questions. (Because the trustee is not a judge, he should be called “sir” not “your honor.”)
The bankruptcy court computer schedules fourteen hearings an hour.  That’s just over four minutes per case.  
Bankruptcy hearings in Alexandria are by Zoom
Trustee hearings for Kevin McCarthy are usually scheduled on Wednesdays at 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, and Noon. You attend by Zoom. You enter his Zoom hearings by using these codes:
Meeting Id 723 721 3164, Passcode 0426782547
If you are not an experienced Zoomer, here’s some help on how to join a meeting using an ID and passcode.
(Before your Zoom hearing date, Kevin McCarthy has his own form that we are required to fill in. We’ll go over that with you when we have our rehearsal call. We are also required to send in bank statements for each of your accounts one week before your hearing is scheduled. )
That’s a permanent Zoom ID and passcode.  You can test it out any evening, and it will take you to the Kevin McCarthy Trustee waiting room. That way, you’ll be sure you’ll know what to do on your hearing date.

This is what you see when you enter the Kevin McCarthy waiting room. (Except you won’t see my picture in the corner.)
 
 
 

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