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What Are Creditors’ Rights During Insolvency Proceedings?

Hudson Weir

If your business is struggling to pay its debts when they fall due, its important to keep in mind what are creditors rights during insolvency proceedings? As a director of an insolvent company, your overriding duty moves from maximising profits for the owners to preventing further losses, with creditors repayments in mind.

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Appeals Court Partially Reverses Dismissal of FDCPA Case Over Consumer Status and Debt Definition

Account Recovery

The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Friday partially reversed the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case over whether the plaintiff meets the statute’s definition of “consumer” and whether the debt is still a debt. Read the ruling.

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Getting to Know Cara Cotter of Kaleo Legal

Account Recovery

TEC Services Group is the leading technology and professional services firm in the credit collections industry offering both leading industry solutions along with unrivaled, unbiased, and experienced support. I am thrilled to announce that the Getting to Know series will be sponsored by TEC Services Group in 2024. as Compliance Counsel.

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How Can a Secured Creditor Repossess Collateral Without Breaching the Peace?

Jimerson Firm

In the event the borrower defaults, usually by failing to make loan payments, a secured creditor has a right to take possession of the collateral. The quickest and cheapest way for a secured creditor to take possession of the collateral is by self-help repossession. 679.609, Fla. What Does it Mean to “Breach the Peace”?

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SBA Loans: How to Maximize Recovery by Liquidating Personal Property

Jimerson Firm

Self-Help Repossession: In Florida, a secured creditor may use self-help repossession to take possession of collateral, provided its efforts do not breach the peace. Florida case law provides that a breach of the peace occurs if the secured creditor enters the debtor’s land to repossess the collateral, without the debtor’s consent.

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SBA Loans: Offers in Compromise

Jimerson Firm

The compromise amount must bear a reasonable relationship to the amount that could be recovered in a reasonable amount of time through enforced collection proceedings, and it must be sufficient to protect the integrity of the SBA program. illness), paying it would cause financial hardship. (4) SOP 50 57 ; SOP 50 55. SOP 50 57 ; SOP 50 55.

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Supreme Court Expands Creditors’ by Allowing Denial of a Discharge Under Sec. 523(a)(2)(A) if Debtor Transfers Assets in Violation of State Fraudulent Transfer Statute

The Creditors Rights

Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a creditor to obtain a judgment denying its debtor a discharge of debts incurred by false pretenses or actual fraud. Husky sued Ritz under a Texas statute which allows creditors to hold shareholders responsible for corporate debts under circumstances involving actual fraud.