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2026 cost estimates for bankruptcy in Indiana, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a bankruptcy in Indiana costs on average $3,100, typically $2,200-$4,400 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $155 to $290 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-5 years to resolve. Common related costs include chapter 13 filing fee ($313) and credit counseling course ($25-$50).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $800 | $1,200 | $2,000 | 3-4 months |
| Moderate | $2,200 | $3,100 | $4,400 | 3-5 years |
| Complex | $2,450 | $4,100 | $6,600 | 3-5 years |
Last verified: June 2026
$155 – $290/ hour
Median: $220/hr
3-5 years
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Bankruptcy cost formation splits along the two most common filing types. Chapter 7 (liquidation) is a shorter federal process, so attorney fees are usually charged as a flat fee covering the whole case. Chapter 13 (repayment plan) requires the attorney to stay involved for the full 3-5 year repayment period, so the fee is higher and is often split into an upfront portion plus ongoing amounts paid through the repayment plan itself.
On top of the attorney fee, every filer pays a federal court filing fee (set by statute, the same nationwide regardless of state) plus mandatory credit counseling and debtor education course fees. Case complexity within either chapter — multiple creditors, contested exemptions, business assets, or a means-test dispute — adds attorney hours beyond the base flat fee, which is why complex-case costs run well above the simple-case median shown on this page.
Take a moderate-complexity bankruptcy matter in Indiana. The recorded median total is $3,100, with reported quotes clustering between $2,200 and $4,400. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $363–$413, which leaves roughly $2,687–$2,737 of the Indiana median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $3,100, the median bankruptcy cost in Indiana runs 11% below the $3,479 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Indiana carries 3 rows — simple, $800–$2,000 at $135–$245/hr over 3-4 months; moderate, $2,200–$4,400 at $155–$290/hr over 3-5 years; complex, $2,450–$6,600 at $180–$355/hr over 3-5 years — on 5 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$3,100 is a median, not the middle of the band — $900 above the $2,200 floor, $1,300 under the $4,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 47.
Indiana occupies the 34th row of 47 for a bankruptcy. Its $3,100 median trails the $3,600 table midpoint by $500, which is 14% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Georgia ($3,100) and North Dakota ($3,100) bracket Indiana inside a $0 window — narrow enough that 34th is close to arbitrary.
5 tracked states — Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, North Dakota among them — record a median within three percent of Indiana's $3,100. The figure sits in the densest part of the bankruptcy distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
The two measures nearly agree: 33rd of 47 on hourly rate at $220 an hour, 34th on total cost, 1 place apart.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Indiana |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Utah | $3,350 | +$250 |
| 29 | Missouri | $3,300 | +$200 |
| 30 | Idaho | $3,200 | +$100 |
| 31 | Florida | $3,150 | +$50 |
| 32 | North Carolina | $3,150 | +$50 |
| 33 | Georgia | $3,100 | −$0 |
| 34 | Indiana | $3,100 | — |
| 35 | North Dakota | $3,100 | −$0 |
| 36 | South Carolina | $3,050 | −$50 |
| 37 | Wyoming | $3,000 | −$100 |
| 38 | Tennessee | $2,950 | −$150 |
| 39 | Mississippi | $2,900 | −$200 |
| 40 | West Virginia | $2,900 | −$200 |
$0 up or $0 down moves Indiana a row. A ten percent revision to the underlying figure would cross 12 rows in total — 6 up, 6 down — so the rank reads better as a band than as a precise place.
Climbing five places would mean passing Missouri, Idaho, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and adding $200 to the $3,100 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming, Tennessee, Mississippi: $200.
$1,300 short of Hawaii ($4,400), $750 clear of Kentucky ($2,350).
At $220 an hour, the $3,100 median represents about 14 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. That rounds to the same 14 hours as the peer median, so on workload Indiana is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex bankruptcy costs 3.4x a simple one in Indiana, but the implied workload only rises 2.1x — 7 hours at $180 becomes 15 hours at $265 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.47x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,200 to $4,400 the moderate band is $2,200 wide, close to the $2,550 peer median. End to end that is 10 hours at $220.
A third ordering: by implied hours Indiana is 26th of 47 at 14 hours, 8 places above its cost rank of 34th on cost — more work behind the same bankruptcy money.
64% up the $2,200–$4,400 band sits the $3,600 table midpoint, buying 16 hours at $220 against the 14 the local bankruptcy median implies — 2 hours apart.
| Measure | Indiana | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $3,100 | 34th |
| Hourly median | $220 | 33rd |
| Implied hours | 14 | 26th |
| Simple median | $1,200 | 38th |
| Complex median | $4,100 | 38th |
$220 an hour puts Indiana between Idaho ($220) and Missouri ($220) — not the bankruptcy cost pairing.
Idaho, Missouri, Tennessee record the same $220: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$3,100 buys 17 hours at $180, 14 at $220, 12 at $265.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Wyoming | $230 |
| 32 | Idaho | $220 |
| 33 | Indiana | $220 |
| 34 | Missouri | $220 |
| 35 | Tennessee | $220 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 38th at the simple tier, 34th at moderate, 38th at complex of 47 — so Indiana keeps roughly the same relative position whether the bankruptcy is straightforward or contested.
$1,200 is 38th of 47 on a straightforward bankruptcy, under Tennessee ($1,250) and over Mississippi ($1,200), $300 under the $1,500 tier midpoint.
$4,100 is 38th of 47 once contested, between South Carolina ($4,250) and Tennessee ($4,100), $1,000 off the $5,100 tier midpoint.
$200 separates the simple ceiling of $2,000 from the moderate floor of $2,200, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $2,450 upward. The expensive end of a routine bankruptcy and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Indiana.
| Tier | Indiana | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,200 | 38th | $1,500 | 7 |
| moderate | $3,100 | 34th | $3,600 | 14 |
| complex | $4,100 | 38th | $5,100 | 15 |
$1,200 drops Indiana to 38th of 47 on straightforward matters, 4 below its moderate position and $300 (20%) under the $1,500 tier midpoint.
7 implied hours at $180: 50% of the moderate tier's 14, over 3-4 months.
Tennessee ($1,250) and Mississippi ($1,200) bracket it — a $50 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $1,200 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
$4,100 drops Indiana to 38th of 47 on contested matters, 4 below its moderate position and $1,000 (20%) under the $5,100 tier midpoint.
15 implied hours at $265: 107% of the moderate tier's 14, over 3-5 years.
South Carolina ($4,250) and Tennessee ($4,100) bracket it — a $150 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $4,100 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | South Dakota | $1,300 |
| 37 | Tennessee | $1,250 |
| 38 | Indiana | $1,200 |
| 39 | Mississippi | $1,200 |
| 40 | North Dakota | $1,200 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | North Dakota | $4,300 |
| 37 | South Carolina | $4,250 |
| 38 | Indiana | $4,100 |
| 39 | Tennessee | $4,100 |
| 40 | Idaho | $4,050 |
In Indiana a bankruptcy is 6th of 8 at $3,100, between Immigration and Real Estate Closing. At 34% of Criminal Defense ($9,250).
The state does not rank uniformly. Indiana is 25th of 47 for Real Estate Closing but 40th for Divorce, a 15-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 34th on bankruptcy says little about what the other lines cost.
Indiana is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Real Estate Closing runs 3% below its own midpoint while Bankruptcy runs 14% below its own midpoint — a 11-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Indiana is 4.7x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 7 matter types rank Indiana in the upper third, 2 in the lower, 5 between; bankruptcy is 34th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 28th percentile of the 47 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,050 | $9,250 | $24,200 | 35 | 30th | −9% | Wyoming |
| Divorce | $2,400 | $7,450 | $18,550 | 28 | 40th | −13% | Louisiana |
| DUI / DWI | $3,250 | $6,800 | $16,000 | 28 | 34th | −9% | Ohio |
| Personal Injury | $1,300 | $4,550 | $12,850 | — | — | −12% | — |
| Immigration | $1,600 | $4,150 | $10,050 | 17 | 36th | −13% | North Carolina |
| Bankruptcy | $1,200 | $3,100 | $4,100 | 14 | 34th | −14% | Georgia |
| Real Estate Closing | $900 | $2,150 | $3,900 | 10 | 25th | −3% | Texas |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,950 | $5,550 | 8 | 28th | −6% | Pennsylvania |
Simple tier. $1,200 ÷ $180 = about 7 hours, spread over 3-4 months at roughly $343 a month. The $1,900 step to the moderate tier is 7 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $3,100 to $4,100 is a $1,000 step weighted toward price: 1 more hours at $220 is $220, but $265 across 15 hours adds $675 — 75% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. North Dakota ($3,100) is $0 light, Georgia ($3,100) is $0 heavy — but the $3,600 table midpoint is out by $500, 500x the neighbour error.
Contested against simple. At Indiana's own recorded figures, $4,100 buys 3.4 matters at the $1,200 simple median — or, counted in time, 15 implied hours against 7, a factor of 2.1 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Indianacourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.