Some more bankruptcy education: Who is the bankruptcy trustee in a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy? What do they do? In every case under chapter 7 or chapter 13 of the Code, a person called the trustee is appointed by the bankruptcy court. The trustee’s job is to represent the interests of the unsecured creditors. That means that all the creditors who lent money to the debtor but did not get security, a mortgage, a car note, etc., but rather only got a promise to repay, are represented by this one person, the trustee. So not every creditor needs to get a lawyer. The trustee’s job is pretty straightforward in theory, and the bankruptcy laws lay it out.. It includes collecting property of the estate from whoever has it (remember what the estate is, we covers it in an earlier installment of this series), objecting (if appropriate) to an exemption of some of debtors assets if needed, objecting to debtor's discharge if needed discharge, selling estate property and distribut...