When is a proof of claim due in an involuntary Chapter 7 case?

In an involuntary Chapter 7 case, the ordinary proof of claim is timely if filed within 90 days after entry of the order for relief. Rule 3002(c) supplies specific exceptions. Do not substitute petition filing, the creditors’ meeting or the voluntary Chapter 7 70-day period.

Responsible actor. A creditor filing a proof of claim in an involuntary Chapter 7 case.

Confirm the case is involuntary Chapter 7 and identify the entered order for relief. The petition and order can have different dates.

Read the clerk’s notice and determine whether a Rule 3002(c) exception supplies a different bar date.

Filing a proof of claim is a different act from attending the section 341 meeting.

Use only the ordinary, nonexcepted creditor branch in an involuntary Chapter 7 case. Governmental claims, specified residence claims, no-asset notices and other exceptions require their own rule or actual bar date.

1. Establish the actor, procedure and operative trigger.
2. Exclude the trigger day and count the prescribed calendar days.
3. Apply final-day weekends, legal holidays and established inaccessibility.
4. Verify filing, any separately required service, and actual case directions.

Exclude the established trigger day. Count every calendar day. Move a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next qualifying day in the counting direction. No service addition applies to this trigger.

The bundled national holiday calendar supports 2026 and 2027. Count intermediate weekends and holidays. Check additional presidential or congressional holidays, state holidays where the applicable rule includes them, actual clerk inaccessibility and case orders. The calculator does not infer those facts.

Fictitious example

Fictitious ordinary facts establish the entry of the order for relief in the involuntary chapter 7 case on August 3, 2026. No exception, different order, local holiday or actual inaccessibility applies.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish the applicable procedure, operative event, valid claim, admissible evidence, granted relief or completed filing and service.

Governmental unit

Rule 3002(c)(1) generally uses 180 days after the order for relief. A claim from a tax return filed under section 1308 has its stated alternative. A governmental extension motion must precede expiry.

Infant or incompetent person

The court may grant an interests-of-justice extension only if it will not unduly delay administration.

Judgment-created unsecured claim

Rule 3002(c)(3) permits specified claims within 30 days after judgment finality, subject to its unsatisfied-liability or unperformed-duty condition.

Rejected contract or lease

A rejection claim may be filed within the time the court sets under Rule 3002(c)(4).

Later dividend after a no-asset notice

After the specified no-asset notice and later dividend prospect, the clerk mails at least 90 days’ notice. File by the actual date stated in that notice.

Principal-residence security interest

Rule 3002(c)(6) has a 70-day proof and specified attachments requirement, with identified supplemental attachments within 120 days. Do not apply the ordinary 90-day preset to this branch.

Insufficient notice relief

On a creditor’s motion before or after expiry, the court may allow no more than 60 days from its order if notice was insufficient to give a reasonable filing time. This is not 60 days automatically added to the original bar date.

Restricted extension power

Rule 9006(b)(3)(A) limits enlargement under Rule 3002(c) to that rule’s own extent and conditions. Generic excusable neglect is not a substitute for those conditions.

• Use only the ordinary, nonexcepted creditor branch in an involuntary Chapter 7 case. Governmental claims, specified residence claims, no-asset notices and other exceptions require their own rule or actual bar date.
• The ordinary involuntary Chapter 7 branch has a fixed 90-day period. The claimant, case type, actual entry and every applicable Rule 3002(c) exception must be established first.

• Confirm involuntary Chapter 7 and accepted entry of the order for relief.
• Establish the creditor type and all Rule 3002(c) exceptions.
• Compare the actual clerk notice and court orders.
• Prepare the proof and required supporting documents under Rule 3001.
• File with the clerk in the district where the case is pending and preserve acceptance.
• FRBP 9006(a)(4) ordinarily ends electronic filing at midnight in the court’s time zone and other filing at scheduled clerk closing. A statute, local rule or order can set a different time. Preserve the accepted filing receipt. Sending a paper is not proof of its filing.