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Recovering Personal Property Collateral: When Should Secured Creditors Consider Replevin Instead of Self-Help Repossession?

Jimerson Firm

Many secured creditors and equipment leasing companies have encountered defaulted debts, where the debtors and lessees retain possession of the collateral, including cars, boats, machinery, or other equipment. Broward Bank , a creditor bank hired individuals to repossess a car from a debtor who defaulted on its secured loan with the bank.

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Best Practices to Enforce a Judgment 

FFGN COLLECT NY

A client of ours in the waterproofing business asked for our best practices when enforcing a judgment. Best practices would generally infer that judgment enforcement differs based on the creditor’s industry, but that’s not the case. The remaining two cases were a reduced judgment from 2018 in the amount of $3,750.00

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Using Your Debtor’s Assets to Secure Judgment Collections

Collections Law

Winning your case in court is often the easy part of the legal debt collection process; it’s collecting your payment post-judgment where things get challenging and require a bit of strategy. One is through post-judgment discovery, where we work to follow your debtor’s money trail to find any assets that they may be attempting to hide.

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How Lenders Can Avoid Losing Their Collateral by Paying Off the Borrower’s Property Tax Obligations

Jimerson Firm

How Do Property Taxes Result in Loss of Collateral? If the borrower is delinquent in paying its property taxes, a tax certificate may be sold for the past-due taxes, which could lead to a tax deed sale of the collateral. How to Get a Deficiency Judgment After a Foreclosure Sale.

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My debtor owes a lot of companies money. How do I get paid first?

Collections Law

If your debtor hasn’t declared bankruptcy, there are several ways we can use to try to get you paid, even if you don’t have collateral or a court judgment yet. Getting a judgment without scaring the assets away We can file suit for the money they owe. Others such as bank attachments require a motion to charge the trustee.

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Using Aggressive Methods to Domesticate Foreign Judgments and Enforce Mechanics Liens

Collections Law

Our debt collection firm works relentlessly and aggressively to help clients get their hard-earned monies back into their bank accounts from tricky debtors who want to delay payments or have zero intentions of paying back. We Domesticate Foreign Judgments in Massachusetts. A mechanics lien serves like collateral.

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What Are the Downsides to Merchant Cash Advance Agreements?

FFGN COLLECT NY

MCAs don’t require collateral, which seems beneficial for the merchant, but in reality, it is very predatory. Confessions of judgment often enable MCA companies to deplete a business’s bank account. At Frank, Frank, Goldstein and Nager , we can handle defense of the suit and, if appropriate, move to vacate the judgment.