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How to Collect from Late Paying Customers

Business Owners Need a Plan for Collecting Unpaid Debt To stay in business, you need to get paid for the services or goods you provide. However, it is inevitable that you will encounter customers who are habitually late with payments or fail to make them at all. To avoid having… Continued

Basic Components of a Strong Business Contract

A contract is an agreement between two or more parties that obligates the parties to perform or not to perform certain duties. In order to protect your rights under a contract, certain key components should be included in the contract. Get it in Writing First, while oral contracts are enforceable,… Continued

Importance of Employee Handbook

No matter what size your business may be or how many employees you have, an employee handbook can prove to be an important tool and your experienced business attorney can assist you with creating it. An employee handbook can prove useful in many situations, particularly should litigation ensue between an… Continued

3 Things that can Delay Your Business to Business Collection Efforts

As a business owner, you certainly understand that being able to collect on your business debts is an essential part of your financial success. Whether you sell goods or services, you certainly didn’t go into business to give your products or time away for free. Of course, you also want… Continued

Changing Ownership of a Houston Business

Change happens, and your business will face change in the future. How you manage change as a business owner will impact your company’s success and it is important that you are prepared because it all comes down to planning. Regardless of whether you are selling a business interest, giving it… Continued

Your Guide to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Who, What, When and How’s

There are many ways that a creditor may seek to collect an outstanding debt. For example, the creditor may attempt to collect the debt through direct communications with the debtor, by filing a lawsuit against the debtor, by seeking to take possession of or to sell property securing the debt,… Continued

My Business Is Owed a Debt: What Are My Rights as a Creditor?

When a business’s customer fails to pay his or her debts, the business, as a creditor, has several available remedies to help collect the money from the customer, the debtor. “Self-Help” Remedies and Collection Agencies First, the creditor may simply contact the debtor directly and demand payment. If these… Continued

What are my chances of successfully collecting debt from a bankrupt customer?

Attempting to recover a debt from a customer can be very challenging, and business owners have a difficult choice to make when a customer does not pay their bill: do you pursue the customer or not? What happens when the customer files bankruptcy? At that point, you have to decide… Continued

Basics to Enforcing Business Debt Judgments

While the process of obtaining a judgement through business litigation can be a daunting and futile ordeal without legal representation, most business owners are probably well aware that the hard part is enforcing a judgment. Once a settlement or trial results in a judgment, the court essentially has no further… Continued

Why Commercial Collections Attorneys Can Be a Better Option Than a Collection Agency

If you are the owner of a small business, the realization that you are investing more time and energy in the collection of outstanding debts than operating your company can be a disturbing discovery. Although many business owners decide this misallocation of time justifies retaining outside assistance to improve loss… Continued

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