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Can You Handle the Truth?

If you become a client, you have to be able to hear the ugly truth about your situation.  We are not interested in overselling your position or in over promising and under delivering.  But some clients just demand that you tell them what they want to hear.

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Texas Post Judgment Interest

Interest that accrues on judgments after they are awarded has been changed by a recent act of the legislature.

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Directors and Officers Can Be Liable for Corporate Debt

Everyone knows that a corporation is a good shield for liability.  Most of the time, if there is a judgment against the corporation the officers and directors are not liable for the judgment

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Employees Who Steal Are in Trouble

Recently we represented a manufacturing client that employed a couple of sales people who were very entrepreneurial. They were so entrepreneurial that they decided to copy the product manufactured by the client and to sell the product on the side, even using a web site of similar design to the client’s web site design.

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Sometimes You Can Take Their House

The Court entered a Final Decree of Divorce dissolving our client’s marriage to the debtor and dividing the Marital Estate. In the Final Decree of Divorce, the Court awarded our client a substantial sum of money as her share of what is known as a “community reimbursement.”

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You Really Cannot Hide

Periodically we are faced with debtors that don’t care to be the subject of a lawsuit.  Recently we were attempting to serve a corporate debtor that owned a health care facility in North Dallas. They had taken substantial steps to make the usual process of serving a lawsuit very difficult. Their registered agent no longer worked with them and had essentially disappeared.

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Filing Bankruptcy Will Not Stop the Eviction

Tenants are often confused by the fact that the mere filing of a bankruptcy won’t stop the eviction for very long. This is especially true if the Tenant continues to fail to make timely payments of rent.

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Can You Get Arrested in Florida?

Recently we obtained a judgment against a gentleman that moved to Florida. We then proceeded to give him the usual treatment.  Interrogatories, Requests for Production and then a Deposition notice.

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Of Debts-and Jerry Jones' Airplane

A client had obtained a judgment using another law firm about 11 years ago. Judgments are only good for 10 years and then they become dormant for two years before they are no longer valid.  So after we were hired to work on this case we filed a motion to revive the judgment and began researching the defendants.

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This Is Why You File Liens

Very often a new construction client will come to see us and have a terrible problem collecting debts. Inevitably we discover that they have been very lax in filing liens. The lien laws in this state are very friendly to contractors, if those contractors follow the law.  If they fail to do so, the lien laws are, well, not very kind to the contractors.

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