A bankruptcy petition preparer is a person who is not an attorney or an employee of an attorneys who prepares a document for filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for another person. Bankruptcy petition preparers are authorized in the bankruptcy code under 11 U.S.C. §110, but are limited in the services that they provide direct to the consumer. Bankruptcy petitioners are generally less expensive than bankruptcy attorneys. However, articles by attorneys often argue that bankruptcy petition preparers are harmful to consumers because of their lack of legal training.