Melanie I. Wiener writes: Brave creditors who venture into Surrogate's Court often face costly and practical obstacles (i.e., proving a debtor's genealogy) and ineffective enforcement mechanisms (i.e.

A bank levy involves taxing UK banks for economic risks and enabling creditors to freeze accounts to reclaim debts, balancing ...

Troutman Pepper's Creditor’s Rights Toolkit is a series that provides practical insights to help creditors confront the challenges of commercial bankruptcy. Careful consideration should be given to ...

When a business's customer fails to pay his or her debts, the business (as a "creditor" to which the debt is owed) has several available remedies to help collect the money from the customer (as ...

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Section 553 of the Bankruptcy Code provides that, with certain exceptions, the Bankruptcy Code "does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor ...

Thanks to that fountain of misinformation known as the internet, there is a great deal of confusion about what happens when a creditor attempts to enforce a judgment against a settlor of beneficiary ...