---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1507"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1507"
heading: "Additional assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1507"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1507. Additional assistance

- (a) Subject to the specific limitations stated elsewhere in this chapter the court, if [recognition](/usc/11/1502.md?p=7) is granted, may provide additional assistance to a [foreign representative](/usc/11/101.md?p=24) under this title or under other laws of the [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55).
- (b) In determining whether to provide additional assistance under this title or under other laws of the [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55), the court shall consider whether such additional assistance, consistent with the principles of comity, will reasonably assure—
  - (1) just treatment of all holders of [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) against or interests in the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1)’s property;
  - (2) protection of [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) holders in the [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55) against prejudice and inconvenience in the processing of [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) in such [foreign proceeding](/usc/11/101.md?p=23);
  - (3) prevention of preferential or fraudulent dispositions of property of the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1);
  - (4) distribution of proceeds of the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1)’s property substantially in accordance with the order prescribed by this title; and
  - (5) if appropriate, the provision of an opportunity for a fresh start for the individual that such [foreign proceeding](/usc/11/101.md?p=23) concerns.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 136.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Apr. 20, 2005, and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such effective date, except as otherwise provided, see section 1501 of Pub. L. 109–8, set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.