As the attorney, I also looked over the client's income and expense pages from the client intake forms to try and determine if these clients would "probably" be a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 case. Of course I am not always correct in my analysis, but many times I am. This allowed me to better estimate the total attorney fees. If I knew someone could potentially become a Chapter 13 client, I would alert them of this possibility and warn them of additional attorney fees if this situation occurred.
For Chapter 7 cases that became Chapter 13s (according to the Means Test) I would collect the entire attorney and filing fee for a Chapter 7 at the initial intake. When and if the case turned out to be a Chapter 13, I called the clients and collected any additional monies. This way, the clients normally did not complain since they had been forewarned in the initial client intake interview of this possibility.
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