Find the best financial services for you at: SMARTFINANCESOLUTIONS.NET - A woman press charges against for hitting me. Will this court thing mess up proceeding with bankruptcy? - I was shoved in front a store in Feb.. I charged her with simple assault and then she turned around and said that I hit her. I have medical documents. Now she wants to settle and pay my medical bill. Her lawyer told me that if I receive the money to pay the medical bills I cannot file bankrutpcy. I do not think that is true. This haas nothing to do with filling bankruptcy.