I'm in the state of New York and the bankruptcy I will mention below was also filed in New York State. The question is related to my roommate and ex boyfriend who I'm soon going to be evicting from my house.
He filed bankruptcy back in April of this year and his bankruptcy was discharged on July 17th 2009 and "closed" on August 17th, 2009.
When he filed he didn't put the back rent that he owes me into his bankruptcy filing which amount to about $5,000. Our lease agreement is mostly verbal with the exception of a document that I wrote up and had him sign in September of this year acknowledging the balance that existed and that is was due in full if he should ever leave or be asked to leave.
I don't anticipate being able to recover this money since his current bankruptcy probably won't allow him any means to get me the money. I just want him out and I plan to level with him and see if he'll exchange some of the larger items in the house in exchange for the balance.
He claimed that his lawyer told him he could add any debts he had excluded to his bankruptcy up to 6 months after the discharge. Is that true? Wouldn't they have to re-open the bankruptcy to do this?
Was it illegal for him to exclude certain debts from his initial bankruptcy? I had thought I read somewhere that you have to include everything and cannot single out certain debts that you don't want discharged.
Thanks in advance!

