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Yes... and can also levy your bank account, get an order to sell your property, including your house and car, and get an order for your examination under oath in court to answer questions about where you have property and where you work, bank, have safe deposit boxes, insurance policies with value, etc. and to take copies to documents to the court with your account numbers, etc. If you do not go to the examination then a civil bench warrant for your arrest is issued by the court for violation of the court order requiring your appearance in court and you will be arrested and incarcerated until you answer all the questions and produce the documents requested by the creditor's lawyer. This all assumes that the creditor already has a judgment against you.

Filing chapter 11 does not mean that your contract cannot be performed. The first thing I would do is contact the attorney for the debtor. Do they intend to go forward on the contract or do they intend to reject the contract? The money you are owed is part of the bankruptcy. If you are not going to be paid for the job then send notice to the attorney to that effect. However, you can be paid for the job as a contemporaneous payment in the ordinary course of business. This would mean that you can be paid now rather than wait for a chapter 11 plan. If you have materials to be returned you may have to do that. If the materials are not paid for you do not have to give them up. You may want to consider having an attorney do these things for you.