---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1321"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1321"
heading: "Filing of plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1321"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Adjustment of Debts of an Individual with Regular Income"
  - "Subchapter II — The Plan"
---

# §1321. Filing of plan


The [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) shall file a plan.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2648.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### senate report no. 95–989

Chapter 13 contemplates the filing of a plan only by the debtor.