Request Waiver of Chapter 7 Filing Fee When E-filing Petition

Pay Accrued Filing Fees First

We recommend that you pay all accrued fees in CM-ECF before you file a case for which you will be requesting a waiver (this is to help you avoid inadvertent payment of the waived fee or automatic deactivation of your CM-ECF account).  Refer to the Online Credit Card Payments manual for more information.

If you need assistance, please call the Clerk’s Office at 505-348-2500 or toll free (866) 291-6805, option 3, and ask for the CM-ECF specialist.

Use Local Form

We require use of our local form, NM OF 3B, Application for Waiver of the Chapter 7 Filing Fee for Individuals, instead of Official Form B3B.  NM OF 3B is available in pdf, WordPerfect, and MS WORD formats on our Forms for Attorneys web page.

Instructions

  1. Please follow these instructions in the Open Voluntary BK Case event in CM-ECF.
    • At the first statistical screen, select Fee Not Paid as the Fee Status.
    • At the Pay.gov screen, click on “Continue Filing.”  DO NOT PAY A FEE.
  2. After the case is filed, file the Application as follows:
    • Click on Search in the CM-ECF blue menu bar.
    • Type in ‘waiver of Chapter 7’ and press Enter.
    • Click on Waiver of Chapter 7 Filing Fee (Motion).  Enter case number and proceed to file application.
  3. Call the Clerk's Office at 505-348-2500 to ask an Intake Clerk to remove the fee from the Internet Payments Due report.
  4. To confirm that the fee has been removed from the report, go to Utilities and click on Internet Payments Due.
  5. Do not submit a proposed order; the Court will prepare its own order.