Section 01Overview
Chad S. Paiva serves as Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for cases venued in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida (S.D. Fla.). This page is a neutral public-record roster entry — it identifies the trustee’s role and the statutory framework that governs it, and links to the United States Trustee Program region office that supervises trustee activity in this district. It does not list cases the trustee has administered, attorneys who have appeared in those cases, or any characterization of trustee conduct.
Section 02Statutory Role
Chapter 7 panel trustees are appointed case-by-case from a panel maintained by the United States Trustee under 28 U.S.C. § 586(a)(1). At the section 341 meeting of creditors, the panel trustee assigned to a case examines the debtor under oath. The trustee’s statutory duties are set out in 11 U.S.C. § 704 and include collecting and reducing to money the property of the estate, investigating the debtor’s financial affairs, examining proofs of claim, opposing discharge if appropriate, and making a final report.
Section 03Supervising Office
USTP Region 21
Region 21 of the United States Trustee Program covers FL, GA, VI. The Office of the United States Trustee supervises private trustees and reviews bankruptcy administration within the region under 28 U.S.C. § 586.
Section 04Compensation Framework
Panel-trustee compensation in asset cases follows the sliding scale of 11 U.S.C. § 326: 25% on the first $5,000 disbursed, 10% on the next $45,000, 5% on the next $950,000, and 3% above $1,000,000. In a no-asset Chapter 7 case the trustee receives only a $60 statutory fee paid from the filing fee.
Section 05Court Where Trustee Appears
Court where trustee appears
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida
1800 Ft. Lauderdale United States Courthouse 299 East Broward Blvd., Room 112
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Section 06Privacy Rule (FRBP 9037) Context
Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9037 requires that Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers, and minor-child identifiers be redacted in bankruptcy filings. Trustees commonly encounter unredacted personal identifiers on proofs of claim, schedules, and exhibits. The Federal Judicial Center’s April 2024 empirical study, Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents, documented systemic compliance shortfalls — particularly in proof-of-claim filings, which the study found to be 98% noncompliant. OBP cites the FJC study only as national context; OBP does not publish per-trustee or per-district Rule 9037 compliance numbers.
Primary source: Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents (FJC, April 2024).
Section 07RECAP Coverage
Bankruptcy filings administered by trustees in the S.D. Fla. are accessible through the RECAP Archive hosted by the Free Law Project — no PACER fee, no login. If a docket you need is not yet in RECAP, the free RECAP browser extension contributes PACER documents you already paid for to the public archive at no cost to you. OBP does not maintain per-trustee case lists.
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