To qualify for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy a debtor must initially pass the means test. The meams test requires that the debtor's income not be over an amount that is established by the statute.

The test establishes that the debtor has to disclose all income that is earned during the 6 month period prior to the filing. The next step is to all up all of the income from all sources in the debtor's household including all member's of the household.

There are special tpes of inocme that do not have to be inlcuded such as social security tha are not included in the calculations..

Once there is a determination, it needs to be compared to the figures in the statute