That means for many of you you’ll end up behind on your mortgage (maybe even one to Wells or Wachovia!), miss car payments, and be unable to pay for food while your bankruptcy trustee and Wells–likely at a glacial pace–sort all this out.Īvoid these problems by opening accounts at a bank (1) other than Wells Fargo or Wachovia, and (2) to which you do NOT owe money.Blueyonder My Accounts enables consumers to view and access all their Internet accounts – whether bank accounts, credit cards, savings, e-mail accounts and e-bills – on one Web page. And since you’re filing bankruptcy, we know you’re financially strapped. If your paycheck gets deposited the day before you file bankruptcy, and you’ve written checks against it, they will bounce. If you don’t, this will cause big problems for you. GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF WELLS FARGO AND/OR WACHOVIA! GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF WELLS FARGO AND/OR WACHOVIA!ģ. GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF WELLS FARGO AND/OR WACHOVIA!Ģ. If you are going to file bankruptcy and have accounts with Wells, there are three things you should do:ġ. See the financial meltdown of recent years for more details. But as comedian Ron White says, “You can’t fix stupid.” And we apparently can’t get banks to focus on mountains rather than molehills. This is yet another chapter in the continuing saga of misplaced bank priorities–essentially ignoring what matters and obsessing about irrelevant minutiae. Wells isn’t any more required to freeze your bank accounts when you file bankruptcy than your landlord would be required to padlock your home. As a practical matter, it would be nice if Wells minded its own business and dealt with more pressing concerns like responding to loan modification requests and working with financially troubled borrowers. Furthermore, Wells has been sued for this practice. No other lenders are doing this at this time. Most trustees will respond immediately, especially if there are small amounts at stake. Wells’ position is that your account is bankruptcy estate property and that it has a duty to contact the trustee about the funds to find out whether it should release them. During this part of the bankruptcy process, Wells’ policy will result in your bank accounts being frozen. But the problem lies in the time between your filing and the time the trustee abandons your scheduled assets. Providing you have available exemptions for your bank accounts (“exempt” property is what you are allowed to keep), the trustee “abandons all scheduled assets.” This happens in about 95% of bankruptcy cases. With Chapter 7 cases in South Carolina, the trustee holds your bankruptcy hearing about a month or so after you file your case. This includes your bank accounts, along with all your other property. When you file bankruptcy, almost everything you have–all “legal and equitable interests”–becomes property of your bankrupty estate.
However, last week Wells notified one of our South Carolina Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees indicating that it was holding a customer’s funds in one of that trustee’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases. Wells Fargo/Wachovia (I’ll just refer to them as “Wells”) has been doing this out west for some time, but not here in South Carolina.
It’s called “setoff,” and I wrote a post warning about this here in the Charleston Bankruptcy Blog.īut what if you don’t even owe the bank money? Is there still a danger of the bank freezing your accounts? For a long time, the answer was “no.” But now Wells Fargo and Wachovia ( Wells bought Wachovia) have a policy of freezing customers’ accounts once they file bankruptcy. DeMottįiling bankruptcy can result in your bank freezing your account if you owe that bank money. Written by Charleston Bankruptcy Lawyer, Russell A.
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