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You must list an inheritance (or even possibility of inheritance) within 180 days of filing BK. So if you are to receive an inheritance, even if your BK was already discharged, within 6 months of filing, you must inform the BK Trustee (who would have the right to take the inheritance to distribute among the creditors)

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Any inheritance you receive based on a death within 180 days of filing bankruptcy can be used by the trustee to pay off your creditors. If the debts are high enough, a trustee can take all the inheritance to pay creditors.

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Three years after bankruptcy you inherit, does that affect your inheritance

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An inheritance based on the death of a person within 180 days of filing BK goes to the BK estate and is used to pay off creditors.

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