Your question: "How much will it cost me to file bankruptcy?"

The bankruptcy court's filing fee for Chapter 7 is currently $299.

The bankruptcy court's filing fee for Chapter 13 is currently $274.

As for the fees of a San Mateo Bankruptcy Attorney, the answer is not so simple.  A reasonable attorney will charge less for a simple case, and charge more for a complex case.  Attorney Coffman offers a free consultation for 45 minutes, and he can determine the attorney's fee after the consultation.

The issue here is that when you need to hire an attorney, you are not shopping to buy a product.  If you need to buy a new pair of socks, for example, you can save money by going to a place like Costco [or Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, or K-Mart, or any other discount store of your choice] to buy your socks. 

Hiring a San Mateo Bankruptcy Lawyer, however, is not like buying socks.  When hiring an attorney, you are looking for a person to perform the legal services that you need.  What kind of service do you think you might get from the cheapest lawyer in town? 

Some Bay Area Bankruptcy attorneys advertise their allegedly low prices as "bait" to get you into their offices.  Once you are in the office, however, the "cheap" attorney will try to talk you into doing something that isn't so cheap after all. 

Other Bay Area Bankruptcy lawyers do work cheap.  In order to earn a profit, however, they rely heavily upon assistants who do all the work on the attorney's high-volume caseload.  Due to the high volume of cases, the attorney might not supervise the legal assistants as carefully as an attorney should.  Also, due to the high volume of cases, the attorney will always be "too busy" for you.

Attorney Coffman does not play the "bait-and-switch" routine with his clients.  He also does not rely upon unsupervised assistants to do his work for him.  When you hire Mr. Coffman, you get Mr. Coffman.