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 ...

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 ...

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