Dispensation result ....

sorry to hear that DM,i never saw mine appear in either of the local papers nor have i had anyone ever mention it , i can understand what you mean though.

AlanD wrote: »

Looking at the court listings on the website and realising how many people are going BR in our area alone I am suprised I've never seen it before either. I suppose I could scour the local paper to find the BR lisitings. I'm assuming it is a small official list somewhere rather than a full page advert naming and shaming? My worry is personal rather than for my kids... I don't want to give the little b*****ds at school one more thing to tease me about.

Hey Alan,

I'm a finance officer; can you imagine the potential for ridicule there? On the few occasions it's been mentioned my response was "ah yes, true, but I forecasted exactly how much and when it would happen". I also tried to escape paying that months tea money by claiming that it was showing fraudulent preference to creditors but it didn't work.

I admit children are different though, I would have thought your only response there would be to totally ignore them. Like some of the people who occasionally appear on this forum, if they don't get a response they get bored and move on.

Richard

preference to creditors!!!!

Ahhhh i'll have to remember that one for the coffee club money I owe, pmsl

desperate_mum wrote: »

Thanks everyone ... as i've explained to my daughter ...no one is perfect and if anyone at school says anything to her then tell them to go and look into their only families for faults too ... will be fish and chip paper next week ...ooops showing my age there can't even do that now can we ....

It never even crossed my mind that the DS`s would get any stick. As it happened, I went looking for our notice and never found it and it was posted in the regional daily round here which is the biggest selling paper in the region. NOT ONE person has mentioned it to me or OH apart from our close friends who were aware of the route we were taking.

With the numbers of people going BR, checking out the classifieds to find out who has done it this week isn`t such a big thing as it used to be.

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Hi DM - sorry that you did not get the dispensation, and I can understand your worries.
Like many others have already said, though, even if your name is published in the local papers, it is extremely doubtful that the neighbours will be trawling the papers looking for the names of bankrupts. The OR does have the right to publish your name in the London Gazette, and a local paper, but the people who scour the London Gazette are, usually, people like major banks/financial organizations, looking for possible fraud, and Insolvency Practitioners, who are looking for a way to 'make a fast buck' by offering you an IVA as a means to 'reverse your bankruptcy'.
Even in the local paper, your bankruptcy is hardly likely to be 'Front Page News' - it will probably merit a couple of lines, buried deep within the personal announcements. Your daughter's schoolfriends are most unlikely to read that part of any newspaper, and their parents, should they notice it, are unlikely to associate your name with that of your daughter, especially as children hardly ever refer to their friends by their surname. Even if there were any association, news like that is soon forgotten.
I was made bankrupt last October and I have never seen my name in the local press - nor have I met anyone who has.
I TOTALLY understand your concern, though, but try not to worry.