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Section 605 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act reads..."(1)Cases under title 11 (United States Code) or under the Bankruptcy Act that, from the date of entry of the order for relief or the date of adjudication..."

The order for relief or adjudication is the discharge.

The date the Order for Relief is issued is the filing date. Whenever a bankrutcy petition is filed, "RELIEF ORDERED" is stamped on the front (at least it was prior to electronic filing), and this means that the debtor is immediately afforded protection as soon as the petition is filed. So, if the FCRA says the Chapter 7 bankruptcy is on the credit report 10 years from the date of the Order for Relief (and 7 years for Chapter 13), then the bankruptcy will be listed on the credit report for 10 years (or 7 years for Chapter 13) from the date the petition was originally filed.

Please note that nothing in this posting or in any other posting constitutes legal advice; this is simply my understanding of the facts, which I do not warrant, and I am not suggesting any course of action or inaction to any person.

Here's a better-supported follow up to my posting above asserting that the bankruptcy should fall off 10 years after the filing date and not 10 years after discharge:

Section 605(1) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act states that no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing "Cases under title 11 [United States Code] or under the Bankruptcy Act that, from the date of entry of the order for relief or the date of adjudication, as the case may be, antedate the report by more than 10 years."

Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 301, "[a] voluntary case under a chapter of this title is commenced by the filing with the bankruptcy court of a petition under such chapter by an entity that may be a debtor under such chapter. The commencement of a voluntary case under a chapter of this title constitutes an order for relief under such chapter."

Therefore, bankruptcies come off of your credit report either 10 years or 7 years (depending on which Chapter was filed) after the Order for Relief is issued, which is the filing date.

Please note that nothing in this posting or in any other posting constitutes legal advice; this is simply my understanding of the facts, which I do not warrant, and I am not suggesting any course of action or inaction to any person.

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