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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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Secured vs Unsecured Debt: Everything You Need to Know

Sawin & Shea

Secured Debt in Bankruptcy A bankruptcy can discharge your underlying responsibility to pay the debt, but it does not do away with the creditors rights to the collateral they hold as security. That means that you must continue to pay on most secured debts to keep or hold onto the collateral.

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Burr & Forman Names Eight New Partners Across Five Offices

Burr Forman

He represents various financial institutions, creditors, landlords, and other parties in all aspects of loan modifications and restructuring, commercial foreclosures, enforcement of security interests and domestic and foreign judgments, Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcies, and creditorsrights litigation.