Motion - A request by a litigant to a judge for a decision on an issue relating to the case.⏎
No-asset case - A Chapter 7 case in which there are no assets available to satisfy any portion of the creditors' unsecured claims.⏎
Petition preparer - A business not authorized to practice law that prepares bankruptcy petitions.⏎
Precedent - A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court. Judges will generally "follow precedent" - meaning that they use the principles established in earlier cases to decide new cases that have similar facts and raise similar legal issues. A judge will disregard precedent if a party can show that the earlier case was wrongly decided, or that it differed in some significant way from the current case.⏎
Priority - The Bankruptcy Code's statutory ranking of unsecured claims that determines the order in which unsecured claims will be paid if there is not enough money to pay all unsecured claims in full.⏎