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  • Insolvency Guidance

    Topics:
    • Insolvency service, 
    • Bankruptcy in Northern Ireland, 
    • Company liquidation, 
    • Disqualification of directors, 
    • Insolvency and partnerships, 
    • Insolvency creditors, 
    • Insolvency related complaints

    Below are links to Insolvency Service guidance leaflets and booklets

    A guide to bankruptcy

    A guide for debt relief orders

    A guide to debt relief restrictions orders

    A guide for creditors

    A guide for directors

    A guide - Requirements for independent scrutiny of the disposal of assets in administration, including pre-pack sales

    Alternatives to bankruptcy

    Insolvency Service Registers

    What will happen to my home?

    What will happen to my bank account?

    What will happen to my pension?

    What will happen to my motor vehicle?

    Can my bankruptcy be cancelled?

    When will my bankruptcy end?

    Bankruptcy restrictions orders

    Fast-track voluntary arrangements

    In debt - dealing with your creditors

    How to petition for your own bankruptcy?

    How to make someone bankrupt?

    How to wind-up your own company

    How to wind-up a partnership

    How to wind-up a company that owes you money

    Related content

    • Alternative to liquidation
    • Alternatives to bankruptcy
    • Bankruptcy
    • Bankruptcy and travelling abroad
    • Bankruptcy restrictions
    • Cancelling a bankruptcy order
    • Company liquidation
    • Complete Form 6.31 Statement of Affairs (Debtor's Petition) online
    • Compulsory liquidation
    • Creditors of a bankrupt
    • Creditors of insolvent companies
    • Dear IP Letter 57
    • Dear IP Letter 58
    • Directors disqualification
    • Directors disqualification and restrictions
    • Directors disqualification register
    • Discharge from bankruptcy
    • Effect of bankruptcy
    • Employees of bankrupts and insolvent companies
    • Form 2.18BA The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 Notice of deemed approval of proposals
    • Forms used for making yourself bankrupt
    • Individual Voluntary Arrangement Register
    • Insolvency Registers - where to find information
    • Insolvency Service - do it online
    • Insolvency Service notice - revocation of recognition of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland as a Recognised Professional Body
    • Making a complaint against a bankrupt or disqualified director acting illegally
    • Making a complaint against an insolvency practitioner
    • Making a complaint against the Insolvency Service
    • Making someone bankrupt
    • Making yourself bankrupt
    • Partnerships
    • Pay your bankruptcy deposit online
    • Pay your deposit online
    • Statutory forms used in bankruptcy and proxy forms for individual and company insolvency
    • Statutory forms used in compulsory liquidations and proxy forms for individual and company insolvency
    • Step Up bursary - financial help when needed
    • Voluntary liquidation
    • Winding-up a company that owes you money
    • Winding-up a partnership that owes you money
    • Winding-up your own company
    • Winding-up your own partnership
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