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Assisted person:

An assisted person has several meanings in law, referring generally to indigent people.

Under Great Britain statutory law, one who is eligible for Legal aid.^[1]^[2] It also refers to such a person under Scottish law.^[3]

Under U.S. Bankruptcy law, it is also a person who applies to a debt relief agency.^[4] A debt relief agency is "any person who provides any bankruptcy assistance to an assisted person in return for the payment of money or other valuable consideration, or who is a bankruptcy petition preparer" under 11 U.S.C. § 110. "The term 'assisted person' means any person whose debts consist primarily of consumer debts and the value of whose nonexempt property is less than $150,000." 11 U.S.C. § 101(3).^[5] Debt relief agencies are subject to certain rules regarding information they must provide to an assisted person.^[6]^[7]^[8]

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The American Bar Association has an article on this topic:ABA web site

[edit] References

^ English legal web site
^ Legal Aid Act
^ private law firm site, citing Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986.
^ 11 U.S.C. § 526 (a) Bankruptcy law site
^ Bovitz & Spitzer - a “debt relief agency” web site.
^ Bovitz & Spitzer site, citing 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(1); 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(2); 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(3)(A); 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(3)(B); and 11 U.S.C. § 526(a)(4).
^ "The Bankruptcy Code requires a debt relief agency to provide the information set forth in 11 U.S.C. § 527," Id.
^ See also Library of Congress web site, quoting section 11 U.S.C. [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/11/111.html § 111.]

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